Unmarked queen. Photo courtesy of The Food and Environment Research Agency (Fera), Copyright and supplied by the National Bee Unit at Fera. 20
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Small Scale Queen Rearing: Part 3
Having done your grafting, check, one week later, how many queen cells have been completed and how many mating hives you will need to prepare. Earlier, while planning, you would have decided which mating hives to use. Standard four – of five frame nucleus hives use the same frames as full hives and may produce better mated queens, but they are expensive and require more bees to stock them.
