Brookfield Farm Bees & Honey
Share This Blog Post
Twitter & Facebook
Networked Blogs
OnTopList
Blogio
bloglistings
HomeAndGardenBlogs
Tag Archives: queens
Why Jaws of Worker Honeybees Differ From Queen Bees
Explanation of how queen bees and worker bees mandibles differ, and why they are different. And a link to fabulous bee photography. Continue reading
Posted in 6 Honeybees -interesting stuff
Tagged beekeeper, bees, Brookfield Farm, differences, honeybees, jaws, Karen Bean, mandibles, Maple Falls, queens, Washington, workers
7 Comments
Naturally Treated Hives at Brookfield Farm Bees And Honey, Part 2
The queen rearing aspects of natural beekeeping at Brookfield Farm. Links to the bee types, methods, and tools that I have used. Continue reading
Queens From Northwest Queens
Queen bees from Northwest Queens in Arlington, Washington : an overview of Northwest Queen’s breeding program. Continue reading
Posted in 1 Beekeeping, 5 Queens and Queen Rearing
Tagged 1 Beekeeping, Arlington, bees, Brookfield Farm, honeybees, Maple Falls, Northwest, Northwest Queens, queens, Washington
Leave a comment
Installing Russian Queens
Adding 10 new Russian Queens to bee yards at Brookfield Farm, Maple Falls, WA Continue reading
Posted in 1 Beekeeping, 5 Queens and Queen Rearing
Tagged 1 Beekeeping, 8 Brookfield Farm & Bees, bees, Brookfield, Brookfield Farm, honeybees, install, Maple Falls, queens, Russian, Washington
3 Comments
An Idea for Practicing Grafting Honeybee Larvae
A recap of our group’s queen bee grafting endeavors, and an idea on how to practice grafting honeybee larvae without a cell builder to test one’s grafts Continue reading
Posted in 1 Beekeeping, 5 Queens and Queen Rearing
Tagged 1 Beekeeping, 8 Brookfield Farm & Bees, bee, bees, Brookfield, Brookfield Farm, cells, graft, grafting, hives, honeybees, how to, ideas, Karen Bean, larvae, Maple Falls, Mt. Vernon, nucleus, nucs, Pat Ray, practice, queens, Washington
1 Comment
Grafting Honeybee Larvae to Make Queen Cells
Grafting honeybee larvae to create queen cells. Continue reading
Posted in 1 Beekeeping, 5 Queens and Queen Rearing
Tagged 1 Beekeeping, 8 Brookfield Farm & Bees, bee, bees, board, Brookfield, Brookfield Farm, cells, cloake, cloake board, cloke, graft, grafting, hives, honeybees, how to, Karen Bean, larva, larvae, Maple Falls, Pat Ray, queen, Queen cells, queen rearing, queens, rearing, Sue Cobey, Washington
4 Comments
Workers and Queen Cells Unite! Adventures in Queen Rearing, Part 2
Our group puts the gathered nurse honeybees and a queen cell into mini-mating nuclei (nucs) to allow the queen bee to emerge and begin to lay eggs. Continue reading
Posted in 1 Beekeeping, 5 Queens and Queen Rearing
Tagged 1 Beekeeping, 8 Brookfield Farm & Bees, Bean, bee, bees, Brookfield, Brookfield Farm, honeybee, honeybees, how to, images, Karen, Karen Bean, Maple Falls, mating, nucleus, nucs, pictures, queen bee, queens, Washington
4 Comments
Queen Rearing – A Sequence of Events – Part 1: Shaking Bees
Gathering nurse bees using a honeybee shaker box – part 1 of a series on our on-going queen rearing project at Bruce Bowen Bees in Mt. Vernon, Washington Continue reading
Posted in 1 Beekeeping
Tagged 1 Beekeeping, bee, bees, box, boxes, brood, Bruce Bowen, collect, honeybees, how to, Mt. Vernon, nurse bees, queen rearing, queens, shaker, shaker box, Washington
4 Comments
Honeybee Books
Books on Honeybees and other Insects that Beekeeper Karen Bean recommends, or simply likes. From the practical : “how to keep bees” and “how to raise queens” to honey bee behavior and insects in general. Karen Bean is the Beekeeper at Brookfield Farm, Maple Falls, WA Continue reading
Posted in 1 Beekeeping
Tagged bees, queens, honeybee, bee books, books, how to keep bees, book reviews, reviews, social behavior, behavior, social, bee biology, honeybee biology, biology, C.C. Miller, Miller, insects, bug, raising, raising queens, breeding, Ants and Wasps", Eric Grissell, Biology of the Honey Bee, Mark L. Winston, 40 Years Among The Bees, Honeybee Democracy, Thomas D. Seeley, Natural Beekeeping, Ross Conrad, Queen Rearing Simplified, Jay Smith, Breeding Queens, Gilles Fert, Successful Queen Rearing, Dr. Marla Spivak, Honey Plants of North America, John H. Lovell, Insects of the Pacific Northwest, Peter Haggard, Judy Haggard
3 Comments
Preparing for Nucs at a 700 Colony Operation
Sorting out waxed, plastic honeybee foundation and preparing nucleus (nuc) boxes with Bruce Bowen, of Bruce Bowen’s Bees, in Mt. Vernon, Washington. Continue reading
Posted in 1 Beekeeping
Tagged bees, Bruce Bowen, comb, drawn, drawn comb, foundation, honeybees, Mount Vernon, Mt. Vernon, nucleus, nucs, pallets, plastic, queens, Washington
4 Comments
