QUEENS

Technical and practical articles on queen biology, queen rearing, supersedure, queen cells, queen introduction and replacement.

Supersedure: when bees replace their queen

Swarming in honey bee colonies

Queen rearing: a step-by-step guide to get started

Introducing a mated queen: a practical requeening guide

Hands holding queen cells fitted to plastic cell cups

Requeening: when to replace a queen and why

A beekeeper points to a marked queen among worker bees on a comb

How to find the queen bee—and when you do not need to

Worker honey bees around an elongated queen cell with an open tip

Queen cells: emergency, supersedure or swarming?