Queen Rearing Essentials by Dr. Larry Connor is a detailed guide to raising and managing honey bee queens. This expanded edition adds sixty pages of techniques and management strategies, with instruction for both small-scale and large-scale queen production. Photographs throughout illustrate key steps and processes.
Table of Contents
- Overview of Queen Rearing
- Biology of Cell Production
- Cell Starting
- Transferring Larvae (Grafting)
- Cell Finisher
- Queenless Builder Colony (Combined Starter-Finisher)
- Handling & Transporting Queens in Different Stages
- Clipping & Marking Queens
- Drone Production
- Nucleus Production, Adding Cells to Nuclei
- Queen & Colony Evaluation
- Many Queens Are Killed by Beekeepers
- Cells and Queens Only
Book Details
| Author | Dr. Larry Connor |