Raising Queen Bees Guidelines
It can be very profitable to raise queen bees. But, it needs your full attention as you are raising very delicate creatures. There are a number of forms when buying bees depending on your budget, your experience, and the amount of time you are willing to dedicate.
If you’re eager to get results at a faster rate, then you need to get a complete colony to start with. The complete colony contains one queen bee, thousands of worker bees, and some male bees for reproduction.
If you are curious to see your colony grow in front of your eyes, then you need to get a smaller colony which has a few worker bees. Time is needed for a young colony to expand. You will need to nourish them and provided with care to grow and regularly start producing honey.
Raising queen bees is more difficult than raising a colony. Queen bees need more attention and experience as you must separate any queen bee that appears from the colony to start forming a new colony.
Keeping two queens in one colony is not possible. Which means for every queen bee you need a different colony and the eggs it will lay will become worker bees. The new worker bees can become guard bees that will revolve around the hive to alarm the other bees when there is any thing endangering the colony. The worker bees can also become nurse bees that nourish the eggs and care of them till they start hatching.
There are other categories of worker bees, just like bees that produce wax and the honey producing bees. All of these workers are dominated by only one queen. If any other queen appeared in the colony, you should remove it or the bees will feel disoriented.
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