How We Produce Queens
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- There are many ways to produce queens.This is a our way, including grafting, cell building and cell introduction into mating nucs.
The absolute best time for producing queen cells is during swarming season. That's when colonies are really ready to make cells and is usually when they're in their peak condition. That being said you can make them anytime the drone population and weather is good enough for mating.
Incubator:
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Grafting tool:
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Cell protectors;
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Cell cups:
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Feeder:
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References:
Standard methods for artificial rearing of Apis mellifera larvae
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THE QUALITY OF HONEY BEE QUEENS FROM QUEEN CELLS INCUBATED AT DIFFERENT TEMPERATURES
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An Introduction to Queen Honey Bee Development, Penn State Ext.
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WHY would u want any artificially inseminated queens when u clearly want to save and supprt the bee population, its contradictive and goes against nature. Just NO to anyone who dont do this the natural way its just facepalm tbh. cut away all the fake stuff, specially when u deal with bees, there can, and is, stuff u use to inseminate in one way or another that will alter the queen a tiny bit.
I respectfully disagree. There is actually nothing natural about having honey bees in this country. They are not native. Adding desirable traits to your stock by bringing in different genetics can be advantageous if done mindfully. Although not usually done artificially, look at crosses in the human race. If you are in to reading bee books, check out what Brother Adam writes about mixing races in "Beekeeping At Buckfast Abbey.
@@stevenb2022 I am very thankful that we don't have them.
The area I live in has mostly Africanized wild bees. The African bee gene is very dominate. So AI is idea if I’m making my own queens and want to avoid breeding the Africanized gene.
I agree.
@@bobbinnie9872 they've been here for about 400 years though so that point is irrelevant. They're natural to the environment at this point. They can and do survive in the wild.
I agree totally with the open brood to keep the bees producing
I do it by inserting continuous grafts, never letting the girls shut down
Not sure why im using this comment box to admit this but i just think bob is such an inspiration to beekeeping. His methods of delivering information and devoted efforts to add in credible texts in his videos goes unmatched. I have learned much over the years from your videos sir and while i explore other beekeepers online i always come back to you. Stay diligent my friend you help so many keepers of bees. Cheers
Justin, Canada Alberta
Thanks and stay warm up there.
I've watched a bunch of other queen rearing videos just to get people's perspectives, but I got way more out of this one than out of all the other ones put together. So far I've watched it twice and I keep getting more out of it. Bob is an incredible professional and an incredible teacher. The information is so dense that it took me a couple of hours to watch it, because I kept having to pause the video and absorb what he just said before moving on to the next piece of information. I almost never take notes, but I've taken 4 pages of notes. Thank God for Mr. Binnie and for TH-cam. This is priceless.
Thanks for the comment, it came at a time when I was wondering if I should keep trying to make these videos.
@@bobbinnie9872 Then I'm glad I expressed myself. Please keep making them!
@@bobbinnie9872 please don't stop making videos!
@@bobbinnie9872 yes Bob please keep making videos. You have soooooo much knowledge and I’m sure there’s thousands of other beekeepers that are depending on learning as much as possible from you. I know I am!!! Thank you for all the videos you have done so far and please continue!! Lorie
I as well, I have watched 3 times already and am watching again.
I don’t know about the rest of you however I have a lot to learn and am very grateful to those like Bob that are willing to share their experiences and knowledge 👍
Thank.
Ever so gently “nervous laugh” pick up the queen LOL
Ian I see you have watched this video more than once also. lol This makes my fourth or fifth time. :-)
Right 1.200 bucks yikes ...great video tried this method back in September made couple grand quick ...
Great video! You give wonderful information and always positive and encouraging
Just did my first graft with 45 cells using mostly this method. Thank you Bob for this and all your videos. AMAZING!!!
One of the best methods for raising queen cells, and one of the best videos on the matter i've seen, thx Bob
I like how your methods have a complicated start but are way easier in the end. Thank your for sharing.
So happy when you’re videos pop up in my feed
Makes me happy too. I enjoy doing them, it's my new hobby.
Bob thank you for the great Video’s, the education I get from you guys on this channel is awesome and can’t thank you enough.
Bob, I have gone back and looked at his numerous time now. I appreciate it as I'm now confident enough to try my hand at it myself now. God bless you and keep doing what you're doing. It does help others I promise!
Thanks for the video. With your help and others I successfully grafted my first queens this year.
I'm so thankful for all these guys and those that started doing this many, many years ago. Helping get bees propagate and giving new people the opportunity to continue the art of beekeeping.
I really enjoy your videos. You have the calm, clarity, speaking voice and general demeanor of a VERY good teacher. Thanks for sharing your knowledge and experience.
The BEST of many queen reading videos I’ve watched on TH-cam - thanks Bob!
Thank you.
Thank you for sharing your knowledge and wisdom with other beekeepers
You like the Bob Ross of bees calm and intelligent. Glad you are taking the time to make these videos really appreciated
probably the best tutorial ever on queen raising; thank you so much for putting all those parts together. so many doubts i had you just cleared. thanks again and cheers from southern france
Thank you.
A greatly detailed video that made me excited to try crafting my own queens! We lost a few last year. I want to start learning on how to make my own. It will save a lot of money for sure. Thank you Bob for taking the time to teach us👍
Excellent treatise on the whole process! Thank you for posting it.
Thanks.
I LOVE how you quote researchers and use strong science in your operation. Seems like a lot of beekeepers buy into myth and legend more than they should. Keep it up!
Blown away by the detail and quality of your videos. 👍
Thanks.
I have tried and all work just fine. For first attempt 9 from 15. I hope next round will be even better😊 Thanks, Bob Binnie! You made my day!
Hello, I live in Turkey. I am a beekeeper as a hobby. I have about 20 hives. I have been producing my own queen bees for 2 years. this year I applied a method similar to yours. but there are very important details in your method that will increase success. I follow your videos with pleasure and interest. I learned a lot from you. thank you very much for everything. I wish you continued success.
Thank you.
Hello Bob. This is my third or fourth time watching this video now. Same goes for your series with Chris Werner & family... There is so much quality information. Thank you for taking the time to make these videos!
You make such great educational contenta about beekeping. I am really glad i found your channel.
Interesting video, as always. Nice to se many ways of making queens around the world.
Just do it. Failing helps us learn. Gonna give it a shot this spring. Thanks Bob!
Thank you. I am watching you build nuc. Big operation.
Bob - this was one of the most helpful videos I have seen on the subject of raising your own queens. You provided a huge resource to us viewers on this one. Thank you so much. You perspective on the whole spectrum of beekeeping is one of the most enjoyable and practical ones I have found and I find myself constantly referring to information that you have put out. So many people put up opinions based on only experience, but you link knowledge and solid science with your experience and that provides me and my operation with an invaluable resource. Thank you so much!
Thanks for the comment.
Thanks Bob my 1st attempt at grafting your way this week and got 21 out of 30 so a big 👍to you and your team. Cheers Dan from Aussie land 🍻🍻
Not only do you explain what you do, but most importantly, you explain the WHY. Thank you. Definitely a part of my “saved” library!
Thanks
Thank you Bob for the most helpful video on grafting that I have ever seen. I have been grafting for two years now and I have learnt much from you that I will incorporate for next year. Tim from England.
The home of Brother Adam. Thank you.
Great video Bob, thank you.
Bob, this video by far is the best that I’ve ever seen on grafting. My hat is off to you! I only try to keep 5 to 7 hives as a hobby to produce honey for my immediate family and a few friends. I’ve only bought 1 nuc and 1 other queen so at this point I don’t see myself doing any grafting but I will definitely remember this video incase I decide to give it a try. Thanks for your videos and I can’t wait to taste your sourwood honey in about one week.
Thanks.
I thoroughly enjoyed this video. Thank you for posting this and your excellent explanation of each step, along with citing your quotes and stuff. Mahalo plenty!
Fantastic video, Bob. THANKS for sharing!
Thanks.
I love your videos. Very informative and helpful. Great work and thank you!
Hello. Bob.
I just started beekeeping 2 months ago and would like to mimic how you do it in my apiary in Korea.
And thanks for what you said.
It encourages me alot.
Skill will come with time,
skill comes with practice.
Last of all,
thank all of you for taking the time out of your life to make informative videos about beekeeping and to share your experience.
I will try your technique soon this days and I'm pretty sure it will help me rise my best queens. Thank you so much Bob, for sharing your hardly gained and invaluable for us experience. Wish you all the best!
Thank you.
Excellent video Bob, like you said there are a lot of queen videos out there but you have just made one of the best. Well explained, thanks for sharing this with us.
Thank you.
Thanks for the video with step by step information making it clear
All love from Lebanon, I'm amazed and captivated by your work ❤
Wow what a great video but at this point I am not ready for all this . I have a great man that I am purchasing all my supplies from at this time but down the road I may try this . I am trying to watch all your videos. I would love to have one of your nuc boxes they look very well built . Please keep up all these great video. Thanks Gene
I could listen to you teach all day. Your style and demeanor are relaxing all while boosting our confidence. Truly appreciate every video you release
Thank you.
You are the mentor every beek needs and rarely gets. I know your time is precious and am grateful for your first hand knowledge and experience. Loved the references also. Thanks to TH-cam, you won't have to spend your retirement writing a book! (Though we all would benefit from that too!)
Thank you.
As always excellent video I really appreciate you taking the time. I know with as many bees as you have you don't have much time. I always learn something from you each time. Keep them coming there a great joy and help.
Thanks.
A real pleasure to listen to you and your presentation, I feel I have learned more by listening to this one video than heaps of others. Have subscribed and will be following you with anticipation. Keep up the good presentations. Peter.
Thank you.
Soaked sponge trick. Had to figure that one out myself last year when my humidity was around 50%. Put the sponge in, humidity climbed to around 78% and my success rate went up dramatically. Thanks for the call out in the video!
You have exceptional teaching manner, easy to understand and pleasant voice calming example in Presence of your students and bees. Thank you ,you help so many more than you will ever know by your videos contributions.
Fantastic video. Easy to understand and follow.
Thanks.
I think my brain is going to pop... what bunch of education to adsorb... Timing is everything... thank you for sharing
Thank you Bob for posting this video its very use full. Last few years I was using different method to produce my queens but I'm planning to use this your method which seems productive and use full.
Thanks, I hope it works well for you.
Thank you for posting this video. It was very informational and educational . I may try it this way.
I bookmarked this video and will go over and over again.
Thanks.
Well done, great explanation on everything, will be trying it next year.............
Hi Bob
You are doing a fantastic job
Up to now you have given the best commentary about Queen rearing especially the humility factor etc,
I’m in the U.K. so weather is not the best early on in the year,
Il have to sort an area up that can be used to start Queen rearing
I like how you split up the frames, Iv not seen this way before
If you can make more videos that would be fantastic
Keep up the good work sir
Thanks, great video. Good to see another way of producing queens.
Thanks.
One of the best queen production videos out there.
Thanks.
Very informative video! Thanks for sharing.
Bob keep the great videos coming.
Hi Mark. Doing my best, I'm slow at it.
This year we started using the JZBZ cell bars they're slightly more narrow so doubling side by side in the cell frame enables 90 cells per frame x 2 frames. Found it to be a better use for all those nurse bees in the builder. Usually 150 or more big cells are made from this method. Very informative video your cloth landing board works quite well.
Thanks again for sharing Bob !
Thanks.
This is a great story. Thank you very much for sharing
Thanks a lot for this video. very interesting.
Great video!!! Well produced and thoughtfully presented. Perfect reference for a beek wanting to start breeding. Thanks.
Thank you for providing this content. I appreciate it.
Thanks.
*GoodFunVideo* thanks for sharing this content.
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Great video, thank you for sharing this knowledge!
Really good video! Can't wait to apply some of this information on cell building to my apiary next year. Thanks for all the details!👍
Thanks and good luck.
Thank you for sharing your knowledge. You did a excellent job producing this video very easy to understand and covered each step thoroughly. ☆☆☆☆☆
Thanks.
Thank you for sharing your wisdom
Good stuff Bob ! Thank you!
Very insightful and interesting
I am a new beekeeper and have been attempting to catch swarms in western Washington. If this doesn't work, i will be purchasing packages next spring from local apiaries. I thank you for your videos and your knowledge sir. I have watched many videos and taken courses prior to getting the bees. I have finally collected enough materials and equipment to feel secure for the first year. We watch your equipment building videos too as my husband is a carpenter and is teaching me to make our own equipment. Your are a wonderful teacher and your knowledge and teaching style is amazingly easy to follow and understandable. Thank you, thank you. Maybe a mentorship program would be a next step for you?
Wonderful Queen rearing video, the best so far.
Thanks.
the idea of isolating the queen on one frame is a stroke of genius
Excellent video, I really appreciate the effort you put into your content. I always learn something watching your channel. Thank you.
Thanks.
Very informative video!
Dear Bob, as I already told you in an email, I think you´re a fantastic mentor ( via youtube ), your calm and relaxed way of presenting your great knowledge, just fantastic!!
I get excited seeing a blue dot next to your channel, and once again..fabulous!!!
By far one of the best videos about queen rearing!!
Can´t wait for the sourwood honey shipped to Austria, childhood memories, sending greetings from Salzburg, AUSTRIA, Philip
Austria!! Thanks.
As a new beekeeper i found it quite intimidating to start making my own queens, just as you mentioned. I know it took me a lot of time to dig through all the materials and videos to make sense on what and when to actually do. Not to mention numerous failed attempts to figure out all the details i didn`t manage to pick up. This is by far one of the most detailed and informative videos i`ve found so far.
Thank you.
This was a great video .. I'm considering Bees thank you for all the work you do to get us queens ...
Thank you Bob! This is absolute gold! I'm a hobbyist who has only split hives with a queen the bees have already sealed. Can't wait to try this.
Thanks and good luck.
Very informative video. Well done and thank you.
Thank you.
Best cell starter finisher video I’ve seen and Ive seen them all. Love your videos Bob. I think you’ve talked me into giving it a shot. I do need to get some of those protectors though. I have the hair curlers right now and have never tried grafting. lol. Thanks again.
Thanks, good luck.
Thanks for sharing this. Very helpful.
Glad it was helpful.
Best video on Queen rearing. Thank You Bob !
Thank you.
Awesome video. loads of concise and precise information. Thankyou....for anyone wanting to do beekeeping videos..this is how you do it.
Thanks.
Defiantly one of the best if not the best video on Queen rearing I have seen, very concise and full of information. Thank You Bob.
The Canadian Beekeeper Ian Steppler has a very good video on this too but his technique is different.
I watch Ian a lot and his technique is excellent. Thanks.
Kind of you to say Truth Seaker🥂
If you watch Bobs Technique, and watch mine, you see all those basics that we are targeting, but our process is different because we manage different conditions and need to satisfy different requirements .
Excellent content Bob❤️👍🇨🇦
@@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog Well said, Thanks
@@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog oh come on Ian! This is the internet, you're supposed to say Bob's method is wrong since he doesn't do it exactly the same as you. Enough of this "different conditions" palaver...
Back in reality, it's really nice to see the two best Beekeeper’s Mentors on TH-cam supporting each other.
You are in completely different environments, but apply deep logic to the conditions to get amazing results, and really explain your reasoning clearly enough that we can understand the principles and be able to apply them to a different environment.
Thank you both!
Fantastic video. Over the years I have purchased a few books, read them all, but in the end I split my hives by using the strongest hives and do not care which side of the split has the queen. 95+% success. Now though, I will certainly give it a go. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for the comment.
Very good.. greetings from New Zealand
Outstanding video! It clearly lays out and demonstrates the queen rearing process. Thanks to all your team and your bees.
Great video !
Thank you.
Fantastic technique. I enjoyed watching. Lots of insight which is certainly helpful. Thank you for sharing your method ✌️🐝🐝🐝
Thanks.
Thank you kindly
Super excellent tutorial video
Appreciate
Great queen rearing video with day by day instructions. Thanks!
Thanks.
Another great video, Thank You 🌷.
I've split 5 into 11 in past 3 weeks (thanks to your double screen board method) and hoping to take on grafting this yr.....gonna watch this video over and over till I muster up faith....pray for me:)
I agree with Don and many other, best video on queen rearing yet. Next year, I will be setting up my Queen Rearing just like this. Much more streamlined and easy to set up. I'm excited to see if my results improve. Doesn't hurt to start preparing now :) - Thank you
I wish you good luck.
I have the same intentions. Thanks to Bob also.
Such a great technique! It is the second year, I am making my own queens, but I see some of details you’re explaining are really beneficial to me. Hopefully I will get to make good quality queens! Thanks ! Please keep sharing your experiences! Best Regards!
Thanks and good luck.
Really appreciate the education Bob, Your wood shop is very impressive. I have to battle my wife just to have half the garage for my box building. Great videos thank you.
I'm lucky enough to have a business that allows me to do these things.
Imagine trying grafting process after you had one to many cups of coffee bet your hands would shake really bad when you work on something that small. Amazing video love the amounts of usable information and quotes. That trailer is awesome 😎
Great video and details of the reasons why you create good queens, specially the information about breeder queen restriction. Do a very similar process except with cloake boards. I smiled at the t-shirt landing board. Thanks for taking your time to make such a vibeeo.
Thank you.