Join the Backyard Beekeepers in the club’s queen rearing efforts this year!

The first event of the year is a Zoom meeting on Thursday June 18 at 7:30 pm to discuss various methods for rearing queens to improve stock and make our apiaries self-sustaining.

All members are invited to attend.

Discussion points will include:

• Benefit of rearing your own queens
• Method of rearing queens
• Using swarm cells
• Small numbers of queen cells (Miller Method)
• Grafting larvae (Doolittle method)
• Preparation of colony to raise queen cells
• Setting up a colony to accept queen cells

The club has set up a queenrearing yard at Randall’s Farm, an Aspetuck Land Trust property  located in Easton, about 5 minutes away from the beeyard at Trout Brook Valley.

36 mating units have been established to accept queen cells on a 3-week basis.