Just a quick queen rearing sessions with Jezrael Vergara at Allan Defensor's Apiary, we were scheduled to go there and graft those day old Larvae. from the moment the queen lay an egg it will take 3 days for it to be hatched and became a larvae on it's fourth day, identifying the 1 day old larvae is the key factor in grafting queens, and of course a good light and a good eyesight in identifying those day old larvae these are the beekeeping tools needed in grafting queens grafting tool, cell cups, cell bars and frame, grafting is simply the process of transferring larva from the worker cell of the breeder's hive to an artificial queen cell. The shape of the cell, along with the queenless condition of the hive receiving the newly grafted cells stimulates the workers to feed them a diet which make them develop into queens. Jezrael brought 2 types grafting tools one which he made out of cotton buds and was the most comfortable grafting tool that he used in grafting and the second was the chinese grafting pen which was given to him by a fellow beekeeper Clarisse Tan. According to him we have to move fast in transferring the larvae because it might dry them if it took too long for the grafting process and the larvae might die if it went dry, we brought 2 brood combs from their breeder hive which has a queen that was imported here from Hawaii, the cell builder which was at Allan's Apiary was ready and the grafted cells was placed at the center of the brood nest of the cell builder it should be check if the cells are accepted the bees will make a queen cell on it, hope our grafted queen will succeed.
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Dilan's Apiary
Address: Kagudoy Road, Basak, Lapu-Lapu City Archives
June 2022
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