Stan is making queen cups to raise more feral queen bees this spring. .
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Bees decide which kind of bee caste to raise based on the shape of the cell the egg is laid in. If it’s regular sized, they will raise a worker bee. If it’s queen cup sized, they will feed the larvae extra royal jelly, which causes her reproductive system to develop and she becomes a queen. .
When we introduce lots of queen cells in a queen less hive, the bees will raise lots of queens. .
We can use those to make new colonies by splitting an older colony in half. One half will have a queen and the other will not. The one without will be very happy to adopt one of the queens we raised for it. .
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