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A beekeeper shows a newly emerged Buckfast queen escaping her cell, then transfers her into a rainbow mating nuc. Within ten days, eggs will signal successful mating.
A beekeeper shows a newly emerged Buckfast queen escaping her cell, then transfers her into a rainbow mating nuc. Within ten days, eggs will signal successful mating.
Inside this cell here, we have a queen bee that is desperate to come out and meet her new colony of bees. You can see here she's already eaten her way out. She cuts herself a tiny little circle of wax as a flap, and then if you look inside, you can see her moving around. And there we go, she is out. One virgin Buckfast queen. I'm gonna put her into her new beehive now. So my rainbow hive is set up, all good to go, and I have one virgin queen here ready to go inside. So all I do, open up the flap, take my virgin queen, and place her into the beehive like that. I seal her in with this plastic tab, and then I close the roof. This beehive will go out for mating, and hopefully in about 10 days we'll see signs of eggs showing that that queen is mated.
