#Queen Bee

Can you spot our new queen Fun fact: this queen was delivered to us, by Mr postman a few months ago!!! Im still absolutly amazing that one can simply post a queen bee with Australia Post #queenbee #Australiapost #whereswally #spotthequeen #bee

A ball of bees!? This is called queen balling. It’s a natural process inside of a honeybee colony. Do you think it’s brutal?

How Beekeepers Identify the Queen!🤯 “To mark a queen bee, beekeepers use a careful and controlled method — because she’s the most important member of the colony. The queen is gently placed into a small marking cage to keep her still without harm. Once secured, a special non-toxic marker is used to place a tiny colored dot on her back. This makes it easy to spot the Queen bee among thousands of worker bees. The color can even indicate the year she was marked. Small dot — but essential for managing the entire hive.” #Beekeeping #Nature #DidYouKnow #Honeybees #HowThingsWork

QUEEN PIPING 🔊🔊🔊 Right out the cell, queens are ready to throw down with their sisters in order to crown a victor! Not all queens are fighters through Some decide to fly away, especially if there’s too much opposition and enough bees in the hive to swarm with. But a strong piping tone like this queen definitely shows a queen who is ready to show why she should be queen! #queenrearing #honeybees #beekeeping #apiary #apiculture

The queen never stops working 👑🐝 Egg by egg, the hive grows. #QueenBee #BeeColony #HiveManagement #BeekeepingDaily #Apiary

Recent Watch: The Revival of THE QUEEN BEE! 🐝 #bee #queenbee #bees #contentdiary #gg3

Extra queen cells often signal swarm preparation. Timely removal helps maintain workforce strength and honey flow 🍯🐝 #SwarmControl #BeeFacts #HiveCheck #HoneyBeeFarm #BeekeepingTips

I picked up a queen bee and the rest of the bees followed her and landed on my hand! 🐝💛

Spotting the queen amongst 12k bees under one minute? No problem!

When looking through your hive, finding the queen is NOT your top priority! A queens job is to lay eggs. These eggs hatch into larvae then transform into honey bees. Honeybees only live for about 2months so if the old bees are not continuously replaced then the whole hive will collapse and die Looking for eggs gives you more of an idea about hive health then just seeing the queen If the queen is not laying then she needs to be replaced. A colony can replace their own queen IF they have larvae to feed royal jelly to. Unfortunately, this hive had no eggs or larvae so there was no hope 😭😭😭 Fortunately, it was a double queened hive 😏 so I dispatched this one and they all lived happily ever after 😁😁 Happy beekeeping everyone 🐝 #queenkilling #honeybeequeen #beekeeping #queenbee #dyinghive

Queen bee release day