Peeblesshire Beekeepers Association

Dark Bee Queen Rearing

Here are some photos from Wilma showing some the action from this seasons attempts at raising native dark queens from the associations native bee stock. The hard work here has mainly been done by Wilma, Linda and David.

These were taken when they were moving the black amm queen that was mated at Kate Atchleys apiary from an apidea into a  nuc box.

Kate delivering the Apideas with the mated queens
Making up the nuc
Ready for the new queen
The queen was mated in the Apidea box.
Dark bees on the comb
The native amm queen
The queen being attended to
Building up the stocks in nuc boxes