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Here’s one of our queens that wasn’t laying any brood two weeks, but now she is going to town. www.honeybeesonline.com We are Long Lane Honey Bee Farms, located in East Central Illinois near Champaign llinois. We manufacture beekeeping equipment and sell bees and queens.

www.honeybeesonline.com Today, join us here at Long Lane Honey Bee Farm as we show you how we graft queens. It’s early now, and in this video I’ll show you how we can raise a few queens even though it’s still too early to raise queens the way we do in late spring and summer.

A new Virgin Queen Bee running on honey comb.Georgia Beekeeper John Pluta with beehive frame & virgin Carniolan Queen bee piping to other worker bees. Queen cells just hatched out of cell building hive.Beekeeping seldom seen. Queen will go on mating flight seeking drones,return to lay eggs,which hatch into larva,then pupae. Nuc boxes with 5 frames of comb are used to raise and mate Queens here in Milledgeville

Keith Delaplane on CCD,part1of4, Beekeeping colony collapse disorder.Honey bee decline and why it matters. Israeli accute paralysis virus in migratory honey bee hives causing honey bee health problems. A United States, American and Russia unique problem. Beekeeper John Pluta films at Henry County Beekeepers association meeting 11/09 This new beekeeping association had 55 visitors at only it’s 2nd meeting in Mc Donough,Georgia

Beekeeping, Beekeepers closeup of entrance fanning by honey bees. WATCH the upside down bees, I’d never noticed that before. This is September so the orange goldenrod pollen is flowing in,very humid because of rains so the extra entrance fanning for nectar evaporation.The Bee pollen coming in on the honeybees legs is high in protein and will be fed to baby bees or mixed with honey to make royal jelly to raise a queen. I use Bee pollen traps on my beehives to trap the pollen for sales or to …