How We’re Getting On
Two weeks in on the screen-stack fix, a fresh virgin queen in hive 001, a backup graft ticking along — how three separate queen situations are getting on.
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What We Actually Did (And Why)
After confirming the Randalstown queen was gone, I had to pick a fix from a shelf of methods that all disagree with each other. Here’s how I weighed them up, what I actually did, and two honest cautions for anyone in the same spot.
Queen Rearing for Complete Beginners (Like Us): What We Learned from Jack Silberrad
Right. So. Queen rearing. If you’d asked me six months ago what I thought about raising my own queens, I would have laughed nervously and changed the subject. We’re still trying to keep our single colony alive through winter, and here we are taking notes at a lecture about breeding bees. Classic overachievers, us. But … Read more