{"id":2804,"date":"2009-06-03T08:30:53","date_gmt":"2009-06-03T14:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=2804"},"modified":"2009-06-03T08:30:53","modified_gmt":"2009-06-03T14:30:53","slug":"queen-bees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=2804","title":{"rendered":"Queen Bees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beltane\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waxing Dyan Moon<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2803\" title=\"thebeekeeper\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/thebeekeeper-224x300.jpg\" alt=\"thebeekeeper\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/thebeekeeper-224x300.jpg 224w, https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/thebeekeeper.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/> Hat jauntily askew and ready to check on his bees.<\/p>\n<p>The bees have been busy since I left two + weeks ago.\u00a0 A lot more worker bees, probably three times than the original packagae, so maybe 24,000 bees.\u00a0 Also a lot of queen cells so I think they are not far from swarming.\u00a0 I have to contact Mark, my bee expert, and found out if I did the right preventative measures.\u00a0 Using the hive tool, I opened the queen cells and destroyed the brood.<\/p>\n<p>This sounds cruel, but the purpose of new queen cells at this point is to produce a swarm with its own queen.\u00a0 Without them, they will continue to build more worker bees and produce honey in the hives.<\/p>\n<p>Trellis and planting next.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beltane\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waxing Dyan Moon Hat jauntily askew and ready to check on his bees. The bees have been busy since I left two + weeks ago.\u00a0 A lot more worker bees, probably three times than the original packagae, so maybe 24,000 bees.\u00a0 Also a lot of queen cells so I think they are not far &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=2804\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Queen Bees<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1268],"tags":[1634],"class_list":["post-2804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bees","tag-queens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2804"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2806,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2804\/revisions\/2806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}