How to Breed Queen Bees Your bee hives already have a queen each – so why create more? Well, you might want to start a brand-new hive, re-queen a hive that’s lost its leader or even sell queens to other beekeepers. Raising queens isn’t something to do in your first year of beekeeping, but it’s simpler than it seems. There are a few different ways to raise queens for your bee hive: Splitting a hive and letting the colony raise a new queen; Placing a frame of eggs into a queenless hive with sufficient pollen, and letting them raise multiple queen cells which you can then put into cages and wait to hatch; Overcrowding the colony so they prepare to swarm, building swarm cells on the outer edges of the frames; More complex grafting and cell punch methods. It all
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