2018 · June 28, 2018

Time and again the garden beekeeper is asked how he can find the queen among tens of thousands of bees in the beehive. This does indeed require a little practice. The queen differs from the other bees in the following characteristics: larger than worker bees long, rather slender abdomen no hair on the breastplate tan legs

2018 · June 21, 2018

In the garden beekeeper blog, a reader commented that trimming the wings is now one of the absolute no-gos. And beekeeping by nature is different. Why does the garden beekeeper clip the wings of queens? This is indeed an ugly measure - at least at first glance. What does it do? It is one of several measures to prevent the colony from swarming. This is especially important when bees are kept in the city, because it makes neighbours nervous if a swarm of bees hangs from a tree or even from a sun...

2017 · July 01, 2017

It takes a little patience and practice to find the queen among many thousands of bees. However, a coloured dot on the royal shoulder makes finding the royal mother much easier. By the way, the colour gives information about the year of birth and thus about the age of the queen. The annual colour for 2017 is yellow. In order to fix the queen for gluing on the colour plate, you can use a special tool in which she is gently pressed into the tapered roof of the cylinder by a soft foam stamp....

2014 · April 09, 2014

If he was quite sure that the queen had survived the winter in good health due to clear indications, the garden beekeeper saw her for the first time on Holy Saturday, 19.04. In the hustle and bustle and with a still untrained eye, the search for the unmarked lady took some time and, in addition, once again brought a sting. She was sitting on one of the last of 40 honeycomb pages. Who finds the queen in the photo?