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Our mated queen bees are bred from the healthiest and most productive colonies, ensuring strong and thriving hives within your apiary. We prioritise calmness throughout the breeding process, resulting in exceptionally calm colonies of bees.
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1. FIND QUEEN
Day 0: This is generally the hardest part of requeening a beehive you MUST find the queen. If you do not find the queen and you go and ahead and introduce a mated queen, the original queen will just kill her.
If you cant find her, take a look at this video to help track her down - FIND A QUEEN.
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2. KILL QUEEN
Day 0: It's never nice to kill a living creature but in order to successfully requeen a beehive, you must first dispatch the original queen.
Once you have found the queen, pick her up and squish her between your fingers. This is the most humane method to kill a queen as it's as quick as it can possibly be.
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3. REMOVE CELLS
Day 0: Once the queen has been killed, close the hive back and leave the bees alone for 8 days.
Day 8: After 8 days, go through every single frame and shake the bees off. Identify all emergency cells and remove then. Double check - you need to remove ALL the cells.
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4. ADD CAGED QUEEN
Day 8: Immediately after destroying ALL the emergency cells, the colony is now hopelessly queenless. They have no queen and no resources (eggs or larvae) to create one.
Add a mated queen, in a sealed queen cage and place between two frames of brood. Do not remove the tab covering the fondant.
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5. REMOVE FONDANT TABS
Day 10: Leave the sealed cage in between the brood frames for 24 hrs. This allows the bees to get used to the smell of their new queen.
After 24 hrs, you can remove the plastic tabs with a flat head screwdriver to expose the fondant. Place the cage back between the frames of brood and the bees will slowly release the queen. See different cage design below!
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6. CHECK FOR EGGS
Day 17: After 1 week, we go back and check for eggs to see if the queen has been successfully introduced. If you see eggs, then there is no need to see the queen.
If you dont see eggs, try and locate the queen. It can take 2-3 weeks for mated queens to come back into lay following being caged.
7. JZBZ CAGES
If your queen arrives in a JZBZ cage like this, it is ALREADY primed for introduction and you can place directly into a hopelessly queenless hive.
There are no tabs to pop and the bees will eat the brown fondant and release the queen.
8. SLOW IT DOWN
Should you wish to slow down the introduction, you can cover the tube with foil or plastic tape. This will stop the bees being able to release the queen.
Perfect for if you haven't reached that queenless status yet and you want to bank the queen.
9. 'POP THE TAB'
Finally, once you are ready to 'pop the tab' and let the bees start to eat through the fondant. You can safely remove the foil cover and the bees will recommence releasing the queen.
These cages are impregnated with queen pheromone which can help with acceptance.
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What a queen! Just went straight into the job. Two weeks in hive, eggs and larvae everywhere. Beautiful, full frame laying pattern. Bees are very calm and relaxed doing their job. I’m your customer forever. Excellent service, timely delivery. Everything as planned. Thank you very much BMH.
Rita Narbutiene
How to requeen a colony of bees in your beehive
The video below shows you how to make splits in the same apiary but the process is exactly the same for requeening a beehive. Instead of removing frames of bees from a donor colony, you just have to find and kill the queen and then complete all of the steps on the original donor hive. Good luck!
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