Queens
The Queens category is dedicated to understanding, raising, and managing the most important bee in your colony. Learn how to identify a healthy queen, recognize queenless hives, introduce new queens, and even explore queen rearing techniques. Whether you're buying, raising, or replacing, this is your resource for all things queen-related.
How To Run A Queen Bank
Banking Queens at Foxhound Bee Company: Learn How We Store and Care for Queens in Our Beekeeping Practices for Beekeepers of All Levels.
What Happens When A Queen Bee Dies?
Discover what happens when a bee colony loses its queen, why colonies go queenless, and how worker bees quickly respond to raise a new queen in her place.
Queen Marking Colors
Learn how to mark queen bees with the right tools and color codes. Understand the benefits of marking and how it aids in easy queen tracking and hive management
Should You Use A Queen Excluder?
When, how and why to use a queen excluder is a common beginner beekeeper question and we can help you find out if a using one on your hive is...
How and Why To Mark Your Queen Bee
Marking queens is a very helpful skill for beekeepers, and beekeepers of all skill levels can mark their queens with the right tools. There are several reasons why marking queens...
Buying Queen Bees
Buying queens for your bees can be a little overwhelming, but as the beekeeper you have multiple options from queen cells to mated queens
Requeening A Hive
When having to requeen the hive , it can be a stressful situation for both the worker bees and the beekeeper. Many things can go wrong when a queenless colony of...