☯️ QUEEN GRAFTING | A Look at a Builder Hive - #QueenRearing

Beekeeping | QUEEN GRAFTING | A Look at a Builder
Beekeeping has challenges. A queen-less hive is one. I raise premier VSH queens but you can learn to raise a few queens of your own. Beekeepers should understand the life cycle of a queen. Knowing more can mean the difference between making splits with a hive or watching your hive swarm away.
00:00 Introduction
01:10 grafting
01:57 egg line
02:49 placing graft into builder
04:47 48 hrs after graft
06:09 grafted cell bar pulled
08:20 Feeding the builder
09:08 Queen cells conclusion

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Beekeeping | QUEEN GRAFTING | A Look at a Builder
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Honey bee facts you may not know;
Nectar is collected by foraging worker bees as a source of water and carbohydrates in the form of sucrose. The dominant monosaccharides in honey bee diets are fructose and glucose but the most common circulating sugar in hemolymph is trehalose which is a disaccharide consisting of two glucose molecules. Adult worker honey bees require 4 mg of utilizable sugars per day and larvae require about 59.4 mg of carbohydrates for proper development.

Honey bees require water to maintain osmotic homeostasis, prepare liquid brood food, and to cool the hive through evaporation. A colony's water needs can generally be met by nectar foraging as it has high water content. Occasionally on hot days or when nectar is limited, foragers will collect water from streams or ponds to meet the needs of the hive.

[massachusettsprepper]

I have never did any grafting but I hope to try my hand at it this season. It looks like you got some very nice Queen cells. Thanks for sharing.

[BlueLineHoney]

Can you advise what material your lids are made of ? 😊

[badassbees]

You use this as your finisher as well, how many rounds do you do before u add more bees in yours?Good job btw!

[sometimesitjustbeesthatway]

the girl at the beginning didn't want you filming around her. I like the grafting I think I like a little while longer before I need to get into that. Awesome job.

[johnwatson]

Do you reuse the cell cups? Is that what you meant by used equipment?

[CastleHives]

I've never tried this in the 3 years I've been a beekeeper.

[stevendennis]

What tool were you using to graft with? It didn't look like a German grafting tool.

[privatebubba]

Good video, It's almost time to split here north of Baton Rouge. Do you put your grafting cups in the hive to be polished before you graft into them?