http://www.littleluceyfarm.com/honeybees/index.php/2014/12/score-card-for-libertytown-and-out-yard-in-december-2014/ Trying to get a handle on these amazing creatures Sun, 24 Apr 2016 00:42:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.35 http://www.littleluceyfarm.com/honeybees/index.php/2014/12/score-card-for-libertytown-and-out-yard-in-december-2014/#comment-41 Mon, 15 Dec 2014 15:34:14 +0000 http://www.littleluceyfarm.com/honeybees/?p=529#comment-41 I agree with Todd. It seems that our grafted queens are not up to the job. Thinking back to some of the very small sizes of the queen cells, I am going to try for much more nurse bees next year, and more feeding of these nurse bees before we give them the larva. I think the queens do not have enough royal jelly when they start out. The Q1 cells were much bigger, and the one Q1 that I have made a ton of bees, collected a deep of honey, but unfortunately, swarmed in late august. These bees did not manage to make a new queen after that.

]]> http://www.littleluceyfarm.com/honeybees/index.php/2014/12/score-card-for-libertytown-and-out-yard-in-december-2014/#comment-40 Mon, 15 Dec 2014 14:05:07 +0000 http://www.littleluceyfarm.com/honeybees/?p=529#comment-40 I have a Sally 2 and a Georgia 2 ( from a package). In fact, the Sally is in the hive that we used to build up the Q1. I had been worried about that hive, but it came back. These are both daughters raised naturally, not grafted. Hmmm.

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