This class on queen rearing was taught by Sue Cobey, Staff Research Associate at the Harry H. Laidlaw Honey Bee Research Facility at U.C. Davis, Spring, 2010.
Sue Cobey's office at U.C. Davis |
Sue Cobey in class. |
Entrance to the Harry H. Laidlaw, Jr. Honey Bee Research Facility, U. C. Davis |
Sue examining a beautiful frame of finished queen cells |
Sue making space in a cell building colony |
Close-up of an everted endophallus/penis..of a ripe drone (ready for semen collection) |
Shaking bees..into a "shaker box"..to build populations for cell building and finishing colonies |
Partial view of the U.C Davis queen rearing apiary |
Dipping a queen cell mandrel..into hot beeswax..to make starter queen cells |
Class members..trying their hands at larval grafting
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Al Summers (MHBC Director)..trying his hand at grafting |
Close-up view of brood freezing technique/apparatus..used to test for colony hygienic behavior |
Class inspection of a commercial queen rearing/cell building/finishing apiary |
Sue Cobey and Jackie Park-Burris..examining one of Jackie's beautiful frames of brood from her newly mated queen nuc |
An idyllic day in the queen mating yard/apiary |
Shannon Wooten..commercial queen producer..with queen "battery boxes"..ready to be shipped to customers |
Shannon and his crew..grafting some of the more than 4000 queen cells they can produce in one day
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