Comments on: Honey Bee Queen Rearing

By: russ

russ — Thu, 13 May 2010 01:40:33 +0000

Einwabenkästchen /it means one frame box or hive, it’s the same as an observation hive ein means one,waben means frame,kastchen transulates to box

By: BobWills

BobWills — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 16:09:27 +0000

Hello David,

Thanks for the response!!! I found these for sale and a newer version. Here you go:

http://www.biredskapsfabriken.se/english/index.html ;

Product ID: 225 old model we saw in the film about: $38.41
Product ID: 224 new model about: $27.13

Product Name: one frame box

Looks like the new one would work as well for less.

Thanks,
Bob Wills

By: David LaFerney

David LaFerney — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 01:48:15 +0000

I don’t know where you can get them, but I do know that they are called Einwabenkästchen (EWK)

In this PDF there is a good photo of one of these showing the feeding chamber –

http://www.wiltshirebeekeepers.org.uk/Downloads/BeeLines%20April%202007.pdf

And on page 19 of this pdf there is a drawing of one with some dimensions –

http://mkat.iwf.de/iwf/res/mkat/others/bp/02000018010220000000.pdf

I really like those too, because they don’t take an awful lot of bees to stock, and you can check on the brood pattern without opening the hive at all. Also the observation hive quality of it would be great for kids.

If you find any more information about them I would appreciate you sending it my way.

By: Bob WillsJ

Bob WillsJ — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 20:07:23 +0000

Does anyone know where to get those small mating nucs?

By: David LaFerney

David LaFerney — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 20:44:21 +0000

There are quite a few steps, but really none of them look very difficult – although grafting and marking would sure take good eyes and steady hands.

There are other ways to do it that might be simpler – and don’t involve grafting – but I thought these videos were awesome. Thanks for the comment.