Laurence Edwards introduces artificially inseminated queen bees to his colonies by first making them queenless, letting them build cells, then removing them on day eight. The workers' wing-flapping and pheromone spreading show the queens are being accepted well.
We're introducing some new artificially inseminated queens from a top secret breeder, and look how well the bees are taking to them. Still waiting for them to go hopelessly queenless, so knocking them back, letting them build queen cells, taking them down on day 8. But this behavior here is very, very good. Bees flapping their wings, pushing that pheromone all around. Hopefully we'll get some very nice artificially inseminated queens into our colonies to overwinter.
