Alternative Virgin Queen Introduction Technique Experiments. Successes and Failures @SourwoodFarm
Alternative Virgin Queen Introduction Technique Experiments. Successes and Failures @SourwoodFarm
Uploaded January 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 days ago
A January retrospective of some failed and successful queen introduction experiments. I spent some time in 2025 caging queens to see if it could be a useful technique in requeening production colonies with queen cells and virgin queens. My results were mixed. I can't wait till warm weather to get to play in the bees again.

Here's a link to the more tried and true safe way to introduce virgin queens to nucs. youtu.be/Cz8MEP0K_Fg

Here is a link to a failed experiment mentioned near the end: youtu.be/w3T5ijIzhwA
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