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Tina Sebestyen

Apr 16, 2026

LeighHOST
9:08
Tell me the, uh, process.
9:09
Okay.
9:10
So what you need to do is anytime you're gonna raise queens, with this method or any other, is you need to make the bees want to raise a lot of queens.
9:19
Uh, so f- that's the first thing you need to do, is you're kind of communicating to the bees it's time to raise a lot of queens now.
9:25
And the way they like to raise a lot of queens is when they're pretty crowded, and there's a r- it's usually early in the season, and there's a very good flow coming in.
9:35
And so, um, w- a commercial beekeeper, and I have also worked for commercial beekeepers raising queens for them, and grafting and all that.
9:43
Uh, the way they do it is they combine colonies, queen...

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LeighHOST
18:18
But so after y- maybe you have a Miller frame that maybe they do a dozen queens on it, then what do you do?

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