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BEEKEEPING LEARNING CENTER => REQUEENING & RAISING NEW QUEENS => Topic started by: iddee on July 03, 2018, 06:14:07 pm
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If you want to incubate queen cells at 72 % humidity, and your humidistat has a 5% range, where do you run it?
67 to 72%
69.5 to 74.5%
72 to 77%
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If you want to incubate queen cells at 72 % humidity, and your humidistat has a 5% range, where do you run it?
67 to 72%
69.5 to 74.5%
72 to 77%
69.5 to 74.5%. This will keep the humidity at 72% the most amount of time.
Jim
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Wally,I had had great success with 70% humidity. I would go with the 67-72. I do not like higher humidities where water condensation attaches to the cells. I use calibrated hydrometers.
Blessings
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I do not know anything about incubating queen cells but if you need closer then 5% use two humidistats. One would turn on the supply of moisture at 70 and the other would turn off the supply of moisture at 72.
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I'm not sure of the variation in location. Over here I use 55% humidity for my QCs with good result. I have many small
foam cups of water absorbing crystals rotating in and out of the incubator until the desire humidity level is reach. Anything
over 55% here is too much moisture for the queens when they emerge. Too much humidity will affect the queen's wings development in
my observation.
My question is why use the 77%? Is that an ideal range for the QCs development?