Offing the Queen - blogpost

[Rurification]

Drama, drama, drama.

http://rurification.blogspot.com/2012/06/how-to-kill-queen.html

[buzzbee]

Good story,but you should have dropped her in a small jar of alcohol and used the alcohol for swarm lure.Should the need arise again?

[Rurification]

Great tip on the alcohol.  Will definitely do that next time.   

[annette]

Your blog is hysterical and this story was very funny indeed. Believe me I know how it feels to kill a queen and it made me feel so bad the time I did it.

Thanks for sharing

Annette

[BeeMaster2]

My first nuc had a Q with defective wings. Yea, good quality control by the queen/nuc producer. I took her away from the hive and squished her in the dirt and buried her. I thought I was going to be attacked for killing her.  :-D
Now I know better. They could care less.
Jim

[buzzbee]

Perhaps the wings were clipped? Some do that so they don't fly off.

[BeeMaster2]

Perhaps the wings were clipped? Some do that so they don't fly off.

This was my first hive and I watched drone after drone with defective wing syndrome get dragged out of the hive. I had seen the Q the first week but she was always under other bees, another sign of a Q problem. I called the guy who sold me the nuc and he came to see what was wrong. When we found her I could see she had the same defective wings. The hive was full of drones and drone brood. It was not clipped wings.
Jim

[lyndonraaum]

Good story,but you should have dropped her in a small jar of alcohol and used the alcohol for swarm lure.Should the need arise again?

how long will the scent from the Queen last in a jar with a lid and how much alcohol? thanks in advance

[Javin]

LOL!  Great post.