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Message: [QUOTE="trail twister, post: 156769, member: 6825"] In the wild a queen can some times live about 4 years. Her only job is to lay eggs. Most swarms leave the hive before the new queen is born, I guess you could say. There are queen cells yet to hatch in the hive. There are 5 queen cells on this comb I cut out of a house so the colony was close to swarming. One queen will hatch and go around and sting rhe other queens in their cells. But if two queens were to hatch at the same time they will fight and one will win some times nither wins. [IMG]https://uniim1.shutterfly.com/ng/services/mediarender/THISLIFE/001078584407/media/124085138313/medium/1536152629/enhance[/IMG] Raiseing queens I tried the spoon method of scooping larva from a cell and adding it to a wax cup. Place several wax cups on a rail and hang them in a nuc box with a bunch of worker bees and no queen. Couldn't get the hang of it.Billy taught me the cell punch method. Just punch the cell out and wax glue it to the rail The workers will draw the cups out to look like the cells above. Since we know the time line for a queen to be born in days I will cut them off the rail around 5 days before they hatch. Put each in a nuc with workers and no queen and put the nuc in a bee yard about a mile from a yard where I load up with drones(males) to mate with her. Christmas tree honey. Nothing at all. But a lot of wild flowers grow in that Christmas tree farm. There are a few here who rent out hives to Blue Berry farmers and a few do some apple orchards. I wouldn't do that as there is a lot of work and equipment you need like a flat bed truck or trailer and a fork lift to movew the hives about the fields. :D Al [/QUOTE]

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