Beekeeping How To: Beginner Queen Rearing

Learn to produce your own queens easily and reliably with no special equipment needed. Never buy queens again!!!

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[vinofarm]

Way to go, Andrew. Right to the point and nicely filmed!

[realworldagenda]

Awesome video! Every beekeeper should learn this. Learn about mites, and queen rearing, it's vital.

[GLuft]

Good stuff, Andrew. I bought Mel’s OTS book last year. Now I just need to work out how to build enough boxes and frames!

[woodsfriendlygarden]

Thank you Andrew for showing and explaining the QTS Method. I will be applying this method as well. Great video. Keep pumping more down to earth videos like this one. ❤️🐝

[jasonseaward]

What a great video. I find a lot of beekeepers don't want the competition which is so sad when you think about it. I agree, queen rearing should be beginners knowledge. I just got my 1st hive in the beginning of July, split it into 2 hives and made a queen doing OTS but without notching, went back a little while later, culled the cells made with older larvae. Anything capped got culled and anything made out of brand new larvae was kept. It helped that I was able to remember where the eggs were in the colony so I knew where the youngest was. Anyways my point is that next year I plan on trying grafting as I believe I need to master queen rearing asap. Thankfully there are other ways of queen rearing but I can't wait to start grafting.

[tommullarkey]

Thank you Andrew for an awesome video, I will definitely be trying OTS this year. You completely helped demystify the whole process - I am looking forward to finally raising my own queens.

[thesloppyscientist]

Agree. Let's raise the beekeeping bar with the next generation of beekeepers and teach queen rearing. Afterall, the bees pretty much do all the work.