OUR HONEY BEES
We take pride in cultivating high-quality queens for the Chesapeake area.
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Our queens are locally bred and mated for and in the Chesapeake region. We select our queen lines for grafting each year from our overwintered survivor stock, for gentleness, spring buildup, mite, and disease resistance.
Please note we have a diverse stock and your queen color may vary from the ones shown here, but they will always be from our own stock here in Maryland.
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ADDING A QUEEN
in a JZ'sBZ's cage
Please be 100% sure that the colony is queenless!
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** If provided, remove the plastic cap from candy plug end **
Place the queen cage on top of frames and wait a min or a few to see how the colony reacts to her: are they excited and trying to feed her through the cage or trying to sting her through the cage ( if the latter you may need to check again for a queen or queen cell in the colony)
Remove a brood frame from the hive and gently press the flat side of the cage into the wax - with candy plug pointing sideways (plug pointing up and you risk the plug melting and smothering the queen)
Gently place the frame with cage back into the colony
Check back in 1 week. The queen cage should be empty, remove and discard the empty cage. You should now see some eggs in the colony - if not give her one more week (some take slightly longer to adjust and get laying again after transport)