Requeening is a skill beekeepers need to keep their hives in good shape. You may be trying to introduce a young queen with good characteristics who can take your apiary from okay to amazing. You may need to introduce a queen into a hive that has gone queenless. Or, you may need to introduce a gentle queen in place of one that has gone five-alarm spicy. Introducing caged, mated queens the traditional way is only one of many methods to get queens into hives, but it is not the most reliable. This is the topic of a presentation I've been working on to give to an Ohio bee club. In this episode, I share some thoughts and some of the research going into it. Hope you enjoy this initial foray! Leigh
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Beekeeping at Five Apple — talk, tips, and how-to on sustainable beekeeping from the Blue Ridge mountains of Southern Appalachia.
Host Leigh has spent the last 16 years keeping a self-sustaining hobby apiary. She enjoys helping fellow beekeepers get off the purchased-package treadmill by introducing backyard queen-rearing via specialty splits and alternatives to non-stop chemical treatments. After a decade and a half of maintaining fully treatment-free hives, Leigh now practices a hybrid approach that blends Varroa-resistant genetics with organic tools for thriving bees and minimal use of treatments. She enjoys sharing strategies with bee clubs across the country via zoom, speaking on specialty splits (so you never have to buy a package again), simple frame-based queen rearing, requeening approaches and ways to increase VSH genetics in your own backyard. Leigh’s podcast Beekeeping at Five Apple Farm makes these and other topics available free, anytime.