We officially kicked off our queen rearing season today by setting up the cell raiser. To prepare the colony, we introduced a queenless nuc with nongraftable larvae—ensuring the bees focus their efforts on raising the graft we’ll introduce tomorrow.
This marks our third season of queen rearing, and it’s exciting to enter it with more experience and confidence under our belt. Despite an unusually cold start to the season, we’re already seeing signs of drone comb production, and the beginning of mating season is just around the corner.
