Queen rearing and mating always keeps the beekeeper busy so towards the end of the season we much too often found that a number of APIDEAS were lost because other important activities like Varroa treatment and winter feeding led to a complete neglect of these brave little colonies. The method shown above was applied in late August and a strong 6-frame nucleus could be build up in September / October feeding 8 lit. of syrup. The bees overwintered with a second 6-frame box on top!
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This method is not intended fore use by beekeepers (including beginners) with restricted intellectual abilities or deficiencies in knowledge about the qualities of our strain of Irish Buckfast bees unless they are supervised by a beekeeper responsible for their safety or receive from this beekeeper instruction in how the method is to be used.
Trying this method on dark native mellifera bees will result in an act of cruelty to animals and might cause bodily harm including anaphylactic shock to the person intending to copy the method shown above.
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If you are an experienced beekeeper, why not make use of our monthly grafting day! May / June / July You can bring your queen-cups and receive or transfer yourself larvae from our best Buckfast breeder queens.
