synthetic brood phermone (super boost)

[backyard warrior]

Have any of you used this product i read about it in the bee journal says gives great spring build up with pollen supplement ????

[AllenF]

I believe that pheromones may be the way of the future.   This is how bees communicate and relay what is going on in the hive.   If you had the right  pheromones, you could stop a swarm or cause a swarm to form.  Tell the bees to bring in more pollen than nectar.  Let the queen know that she needs a whole lot more brood would be easy.  Smoke and lemongrass oil is what we are using today to talk to the bees.  Just a matter of time before something new comes on the market.

[hardwood]

I wonder how that would work in suppressing ovarian development (laying workers) in a queenless hive???

Scott

[rdy-b]

I wonder how that would work in suppressing ovarian development (laying workers) in a queenless hive???

Scott

supperboost is a drone pheromone-only worker brood pheromone will suppress laying worker-
plenty drone pheromone in a laying worker hive already- :) RDY-B

[hardwood]

Thx rdy-b

[backyard warrior]

Actually this phermone is a queen phermone that stimulates the workers to feed the queen and make her lay eggs in the comb according to the article. It also calmes worker bees that are queenless until a new queen can be introduced according to the article. It has been tested for quite some time and they see no negative effects from the synthetic phermone maybe the way of the future ???

[BjornBee]

No Thanks.  ;)

[rdy-b]

Actually this phermone is a queen phermone that stimulates the workers to feed the queen and make her lay eggs in the comb according to the article. It also calmes worker bees that are queenless until a new queen can be introduced according to the article. It has been tested for quite some time and they see no negative effects from the synthetic phermone maybe the way of the future ???

superboost is a larval brood pheramone-they dont say it in this write up-but it is DRONE larve and brood pheramone that is synthiticaly produced
 BEEBOOST(new name PESADO QUEEN) is made by the same company--Pherotech--it is the QUEEN pheromone
http://cba.stonehavenlife.com/2008/05/a-small-beekeepers-superboost-trial/
http://pherotech.xplorex.com/page230.htm
8-) RDY-B

[Finski]

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I cannot understand where it is needed. Worker layer is not problem. You put egg and larva frame to the hive and the hive is not any more desperately queenless. Very easy to requeen or join.

By the way, i tried queens in alcohol feromone to swarms and i got no wanted reactions.

[rdy-b]

  they promote this product -to increase pollination yields
thats the $$$ market-not hoby time-did you put LEMON GRASS OIL with your queen juice-RDY-B

[Michael Bush]

>I wonder how that would work in suppressing ovarian development (laying workers) in a queenless hive???

Or keep them from doing things they should be doing... because they are being fooled...