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Start with a Swarm.Start with a Nuc hive.Start with an established hive.Start with a Colony from a structural
removal.
Start with a package of bees.
Beekeeping Math
Caste Hatch Cap Emerge
Queen 3½ days 8 days +-1 16 days +-1 Laying 28 days +-5
Worker 3½ days 9 days +-1 20 days +-1 Foraging 42 days +-7
Drone 3½ days 10 days +-1 24 days +-1 Flying to DCA
38 days +-5
• Queen Rearing and Bee Breeding (1997) by Harry LaidlawJr. and Robert Page Jr., Wicwas Press, Cheshire, Connecticut.
• Successful Queen Rearing by Dr. Marla Spivak and Gary Reuter
• Contemporary Queen Rearing (1979) by Harry Laidlaw Jr., Dadant and Sons, Hamilton, Illinois.
• Breeding Queens (1997) by Gilles Fert, O.P.I.D.A., Argentan, France.
• Rearing Queen Honey Bees by Roger Morse
• Fifty Years Among the Bees - by C.C. Miller
• BushBees – Michael Bush http://www.bushfarms.com/bees.htm
Books and References
• Olivarez Honey Bees, Inc.1750 Dayton RdChico, CA 95928
• Strachan Apiaries2522 Tierra Buena Rd. Yuba City, CA 95993-9654
• CF Koehnen and Sons• 3131 Highway 45 • Glenn, California 95943• • Ebert Honey Company• 14808 S. 102nd Ave. E.• Lynnville, Iowa 50153• • VP Queen Bees— P.O. Box 99—• Frederick, MD 21705• • Bjorn Apiaries• 696 Potts Hill Rd.• Lewisberry, Pa. 1733• • BeeWeaver Apiaries• 6301 Highland Hills Dr, • Austin , Texas 78731• • The R. Weaver Apiaries Inc.
16495 C.R. 319Navasota, TX 77868
• Rossman Apiaries Inc.GA Hwy 33 NorthPO Box 909Moultrie, Georgia 31776-0909
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