Cut Comb Queens!!!

This is a method for rearing queens that doesn't involve grafting so it lends itself to people with poor eye site. Also this method avoids the problems that you may have with just doing emergency queens by just removing the queen. Some feel that the problem with emergency queens isn't that the bees didn't know what they were doing and used larva that were too old, the problem is the orientation of the cell and if the bees can't tear down the cell wall, they have to float the larva out of the cell and to the proper orientation. Through this process the larva losses access to the royal jelly at the bottom of the cell and ends up less well fed.

[@fishmut]

Nice work , simple enough to do , I’ll give this method ago in spring time after we get through the winter here in Australia , I usually do walk away splits to make colony,s but I’ll try something new just for fun and see how it goes . 👍

[@totoff92]

hello , just a few very important comment for you to help you getting much better queen with this method (because I have tried it)
You cannot use such an old comb like this because the nurse bees wont bee able to tear off the base of the cell properly and enlarge it as much as they wish , and then the queen you might get will be quite underweight.
2) so you should use this technique with a newly drawn comb that never contained brood. The queens I got from this technique were much bigger.

[@RKalos]

Thank you for that!Are you using starter/finisher colony or just one hive with no queen?

[@hlkotzehendrik7198]

How. Upside down in the frame?

[@acctahmed7055]

I find this video very useful thank you.

[@Megahs2010]

Any success with this method? I might try it next season - thanks

[@rwjedi]

I did get some success with this method, but not what I had hoped. I believe the reason that I didn't get the # of queen cells that I had hoped was that the bees had other options in the hive I placed these in. If I had put them in a cell builder they would have probably built many more.

[@totoff92]

3) if you start from a comb that contains only eggs instead of larvae then the larvae will be fed as queen since the hatching of the eggs ; this was I could get big very well developped queens WITHOUT grafting.
4) very important : for this technique to work you will have to cut a strip of comb that contains a few layers of cells (2-3) and destroy 2 eggs out of 3 (the Royal cells wont be too closely attached.
good luck

[@dansarmar1]

You also needed to suspend the cells from the bottom of the bar, not on the side as shown in your video. I am not sure if you rotated the bar after doing the cut cell grafts, but you would have likely had more success with the cells hanging down from the bar. Try it again and see what happens.

[@rwjedi]

That's why the little pieces of wood are held in loosely with a nail, that way all I have to do is spin the dowel square until the cells are facing down. I believe that's mentioned in the video.

[@YusufSeydaTunc]

Greetings beautiful video. I'm looking for the dropper you're using. Can you give the product link?

[@rwjedi]

Mainstays Baster With Brush
www.walmart.com/ip/Mainstays-Baster-With-Brush/209057380 this is probably a very similar baster.

[@ahorsley1027]

Thanks for this video. Where’s the follow up video with the results?