➡ Quail Hatch Along🥚

[Clearwater Chicken]

The colony will make new queen cells for itself and raise a number of queens when the nectar flow (abundant) and hive size (too small) stimulate them to do so. The new queens will gather bees to themselves and swarm (leave the hive to start a new colony). Sometimes several swarms may emerge in a short period of time. The worker bees will raise up new queens and when ready, will sting the old queen to death and replace her with a new queen.

If a beekeeper wants to change the character of his hive to (for example) make it better-adapted to survive in his climate, he may kill the current queen and introduce a new queen of the type he would like to nudge his colony toward. The queen is the mother of her entire hive and also completely dependent on them for her survival, feeding, grooming, etc. She spends her whole life laying eggs. When she slows down her production, the workers will replace and destroy her--but she still lives much longer than the average worker bee.

This is all just book-learning, so take it with the spirit of the skeptic, but the point is that, however abhorrent it may seem to us, killing the queen to replace her with a more genetically suitable queen isn't an unusual event in the life of the hive.

yep, this is very true. this year from my hive i took 5 frames of eggs and brood and put it in a nuc box to prevent swarming (hopefully). And to get another hive. they are currently raising their own queens. I have decided to not buy any more bees (except maybe queens). and just split, divide, and combine my own hives to ensure I always have a couple of hives. my goal is to have around 5 hives constantly so I don't lose it all if a few hives crash. then I can either continue to split and divide my hives to give me more or split them into nucs and sell the nucs locally. if you don't split the hive or artificially swarm it it will likely swarm.

 

[ShrekDawg]

I love the idea of raising bees, both for the environmental effect and for the honey. Too bad I'm allergic to their venom. I also think there are regulations against keeping bees inside city limits too.


I hope you do get them! We need more people keeping the bees alive, and... honey!

I really think I might eventually!! Especially with all the gardening I’ve been doing. But idk. My brother and SIL wanted to get them at one point but they haven’t yet.

This isn’t super true. Sorry you’re allergic. Also if anyone here does get bees leave your electronic devices far from the hive. studies have been done and fly you leave a phone by a hive for more than a day the bees will all leave

Guess bees are out for me then.
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The colony will make new queen cells for itself and raise a number of queens when the nectar flow (abundant) and hive size (too small) stimulate them to do so. The new queens will gather bees to themselves and swarm (leave the hive to start a new colony). Sometimes several swarms may emerge in a short period of time. The worker bees will raise up new queens and when ready, will sting the old queen to death and replace her with a new queen.

If a beekeeper wants to change the character of his hive to (for example) make it better-adapted to survive in his climate, he may kill the current queen and introduce a new queen of the type he would like to nudge his colony toward. The queen is the mother of her entire hive and also completely dependent on them for her survival, feeding, grooming, etc. She spends her whole life laying eggs. When she slows down her production, the workers will replace and destroy her--but she still lives much longer than the average worker bee.

This is all just book-learning, so take it with the spirit of the skeptic, but the point is that, however abhorrent it may seem to us, killing the queen to replace her with a more genetically suitable queen isn't an unusual event in the life of the hive.

Wow I had no idea bees were such violent anarchists

Or that that’s all the queen did

Seems like a pretty lame existence

 

[Clearwater Chicken]

I really think I might eventually!! Especially with all the gardening I’ve been doing. But idk. My brother and SIL wanted to get them at one point but they haven’t yet.

Guess bees are out for me then.
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Wow I had no idea bees were such violent anarchists

Or that that’s all the queen did

Seems like a pretty lame existence

you want lame existence look at the drone...

 

[R2elk]

Or that that’s all the queen did

Seems like a pretty lame existence

Really not much of a life. Get laid one time, spend the rest of your life reproducing and being waited on hand and foot by your minions.

 

[Clearwater Chicken]

Really not much of a life. Get laid one time, spend the rest of your life reproducing and being waited on hand and foot by your minions.

its still better than being a drone!!!!!!

 

[R2elk]

My brother and SIL wanted to get them at one point but they haven’t yet.
Guess bees are out for me then.

Getting into bees can be very expensive. I spent $1000 this year on 3 packages of bees and one hive. This does not include anything spent on equipment or containers.

 

[R2elk]

its still better than being a drone!!!!!!

I don't know if you happen to be one of the lucky ones. Get laid by the love of your life and no commitments and die happy. Not such a bad way to go.

 

[ShrekDawg]

you want lame existence look at the drone...

Really not much of a life. Get laid one time, spend the rest of your life reproducing and being waited on hand and foot by your minions.

its still better than being a drone!!!!!!

I don't know if you happen to be one of the lucky ones. Get laid by the love of your life and no commitments and die happy. Not such a bad way to go.

OMG

 

[ShrekDawg]

Getting into bees can be very expensive. I spent $1000 this year on 3 packages of bees and one hive. This does not include anything spent on equipment or containers.

Oh wow!!! I had no idea! Guess I’ll hold off.

I could use that to get sheep and/or goats instead.

Kidding! LOL

 

[R2elk]

Oh wow!!! I had no idea! Guess I’ll hold off.

I could use that to get sheep and/or goats instead.

Kidding! LOL

Yes, but you will never be able to buy honey like my bees produce.