3 Methods To Find A Queen Bee In A Hive

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To spot the queen bee is easy if you know how. We will now help you learn how to find the queen bee.

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What Does A Queen Bee Look Like?

As a young bee, she got better food, rich in steroidal substances, and the result is that she has a huge abdomen

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How To Find The Queen Bee

More often than not, she will be on frames that have open cells as she needs to lay eggs there.

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How To Make It Easier To Find The Queen

 If you order queens from a breeder you can also often ask for the queen to be marked.

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How To Find The Queen In A Difficult Hive

Place a super below the brood box and a bottom board under this.

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 I have had a queen fly out of the hive and land behind my ear – I knew she was there because she was piping.

What Can Go Wrong

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1. Queen Flies Away

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Workers Ball The Queen

If this happens, you will need to replace the queen or let the hive rear a new queen.

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ADVICE

Sometimes touching the queen can trigger a response where the workers decide to kill her.

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