![]() Larvae of this age will have had minimal exposure to a worker diet. It is important to use larvae under the age of 24 hours when rearing queens. On the third day after hatching, a major difference in diet occurs when pollen is included in the diet of female larvae destined to become a worker. ![]() The variation in diet starts from the time of larvae hatching. There are small differences in the composition of royal jelly fed to larvae destined to be a queen or a worker. A newly hatched female larva is neither queen or worker caste. Queens are raised from the same fertilised female eggs as workers bees. Techniques for safe handling of bees should be understood before opening hives. It is essential that adequate protective clothing, including a bee veil, is worn. People inexperienced in handling bees should read Safe beekeeping practices first. Laying queens may be bought from a queen breeder, or they may be reared by a beekeeper who has a good understanding of bee behaviour, bee handling and beekeeping. Requeening is also used to replace queens that are old or have reduced egg laying capacity. This procedure is known as requeening a colony. Often these production differences are a result of variations in the strain of bee and the quality of the queen in the individual colonies.īeekeepers can change the strain (or type) of bee in a colony, by removing the queen and replacing her with a queen of the desired strain. ![]() This can happen even though the colonies are all in the one apiary with the same conditions and types of flora. Beekeepers often find that some honey bee colonies produce more honey than others.
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