The Easiest Method to Assess Queen Viability

a Canadian Beekeepers Blog

[RaySarasin]

This year I was in my hives every week checking for growth. This way I can see any problems, next year single hive management like you do. Thanks for sharing your secrets for all to see

[wadebarnes]

I watched one of your videos from this one in the future you had a three or four year old queens she just started to fail and you replaced her which is a good thing but she done really good to be that old to be run the way you run them

[PaulSmith-tfbn]

I'll be glad to get a few years under my belt so I can have this kind of knowledge.

[skel]

Ian - would you do a short video up close of the hive lifter on your truck - looking to build one for my 500 hive operation
Steve SAK honey

[antonsteger]

At what point do you pull the trigger to replace a queen ?  spring summer fall ?

[bgodard]

What are you using for your graphing? Also do you use any other software in your operation, finance and operations, general beekeeping notes, etc?

[TarlBooth]

You mentioned You use hive tags to keep track of each colonies progression. Can you explain these hive tags a bit more?

[billiamc]

Are you grafting queens or some other method of queen rearing? Is the queen rearing done with artificial diets or on natural flow?

[Pasieka-zawada]

Hej what are these mats unter the roof ?

[keithbaumgardner]

How to you prevent swarming in fall with only running one box. I usually have three brood boxes (mediums) and i seem to get very small swarms in fall?

[pauldow]

How is the replacement queen better ?

[nasirinazeer]

I like to work bee keeping 20 year experience