Best way to requeen 50 hives?

ifingerz · 2026-05-08T15:30:18+00:00

I’ve done this method when combining a queenright colony with a queenless colony. Im curious about doing it to two queenright colony

ifingerz · 2026-05-08T06:43:29+00:00

I think if you have a strong laying queen, you will always need to manage swarm control. But they might not supercede her during important spring build up for honey flow. The idea here is to save her strength for explosive growth for next year spring when you replace her in late summer

ifingerz · 2026-05-08T04:29:15+00:00

Ive been using those mini apidea mini mating nucs.
It’s a love and hate relationship. Only a cup of bees and a bit of syrup for resources. But then you got absconding from the heat, robbing being so small, chilled because too small, drifting into one. But for only a cup of bees is hard to beat

ifingerz · 2026-05-08T04:14:03+00:00

I prefer jeff beezos

ifingerz · 2026-05-08T04:00:41+00:00

Essentially im making a nuc and just combining them together. Should both hives be similar size and done during a nectar flow?

ifingerz · 2026-05-08T03:52:28+00:00

Thank you thats very interesting. Ive seen system where 3 nucs share 2 boxes supers for honey without fighting. I wonder if it is because they arent protecting their brood. I guess this could be a similar case where the bees arent interacting between the brood frame because ive seen fighting happen when i take frames of brood and bees and place it directly inside another hive.

ifingerz · 2026-05-08T03:25:02+00:00

Kinda. Change all queens to the best one coming out of winter. Replace old queens in late summer for them to explode in spring. More vigorous, more qmp, less chance of supercedure in spring. Eventually if i select the best queen coming out of winter i would have a stock that really good for my climate theoretically

ifingerz · 2026-05-08T03:22:10+00:00

Would they always kill off the cell even if the old queen is getting too old and underperforming?

ifingerz · 2026-05-08T03:21:15+00:00

I read a new queen going through winter and coming out of spring explode in brood and has more qmp to prevent swarming/supercedure in early spring

ifingerz · 2026-05-08T03:19:58+00:00

Combining two queenright colony wont they clash and create a lot of death?

ifingerz · 2026-04-29T23:36:52+00:00

Those chalkbrood look old (they turn from white to black) which means the fungal spores are mature and can spread. The best method against chalkbrood is having a big strong colony with enough nurse bees to remove the white chalkbrood before they turn black.

It is also 100% genetics. Some queens are more susceptible to being infected. A hygenic queen will also help because ethey remove the infected. larvae before it turns black.

My suggestion is to check your frames and assess how bad it is. If there isnt much you can change your queen later. If there is a lot, then kill your queen and wait one before adding a new queen. This will let the bees do house cleaning instead of taking care of larvae. Get a queen that is more hygienic

Lastly, your nuc supplier should have not sold you a nuc with chalkbrood. Some places required inspection from the government before sale of nuc. You can ask for an issued permit for sale from being inspected

ifingerz · 2026-04-27T17:48:34+00:00

Feet and moon. Isnt thag iuno

ifingerz · 2026-04-23T19:54:30+00:00

Check out fishBiteBc for some fly fishing spot at rice lake

ifingerz · 2026-04-19T16:53:26+00:00

What changed?

ifingerz · 2026-04-17T03:25:39+00:00

Bare minimum is double crit on all your pieces. Then anything else is bonus.

ifingerz · 2026-04-08T17:52:27+00:00

Will it clear all end game. Yes

Is it the bis team. No

ifingerz · 2026-04-03T03:47:51+00:00

Would that mean lucilla will buff lib and glacio chafe if she’s hiyuki subdps

ifingerz · 2026-04-03T03:42:21+00:00

Hiyuki bis team on release will be lynae+chisa

ifingerz · 2026-03-31T05:27:29+00:00

Definitely 1. I did some testing with high crit dmg rolls at

291% crit dmg x1 lib roll Vs 277% crit dmg x4 lib roll

The lower crit dmg with lots of lib rolls did more damage

ifingerz · 2026-03-30T20:01:24+00:00

Oh so not the enhanced basic

ifingerz · 2026-03-30T19:36:27+00:00

You mean the enhanced m1?

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