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MEMBER BULLETIN BOARD => MEMBER'S WEBPAGES, BLOGS & FORUMS => Topic started by: Rurification on June 05, 2012, 12:54:26 pm
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Drama, drama, drama.
http://rurification.blogspot.com/2012/06/how-to-kill-queen.html (http://rurification.blogspot.com/2012/06/how-to-kill-queen.html)
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Good story,but you should have dropped her in a small jar of alcohol and used the alcohol for swarm lure.Should the need arise again?
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Great tip on the alcohol. Will definitely do that next time.
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Your blog is hysterical and this story was very funny indeed. Believe me I know how it feels to kill a queen and it made me feel so bad the time I did it.
Thanks for sharing
Annette
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My first nuc had a Q with defective wings. Yea, good quality control by the queen/nuc producer. I took her away from the hive and squished her in the dirt and buried her. I thought I was going to be attacked for killing her. :-D
Now I know better. They could care less.
Jim
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Perhaps the wings were clipped? Some do that so they don't fly off.
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Perhaps the wings were clipped? Some do that so they don't fly off.
This was my first hive and I watched drone after drone with defective wing syndrome get dragged out of the hive. I had seen the Q the first week but she was always under other bees, another sign of a Q problem. I called the guy who sold me the nuc and he came to see what was wrong. When we found her I could see she had the same defective wings. The hive was full of drones and drone brood. It was not clipped wings.
Jim
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Good story,but you should have dropped her in a small jar of alcohol and used the alcohol for swarm lure.Should the need arise again?
how long will the scent from the Queen last in a jar with a lid and how much alcohol? thanks in advance
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LOL! Great post.