We’ve started on our list of end of season jobs, after a busy year of inseminating queens its time to make some replacement tips and stock up for next year. All our insemination tips are made by us from glass
Making Insemination Tips
Checking the II Queens after Insemination
Once our Queens have been Instrumentally Inseminated, we prove their laying and fertility using mating nucs. This allows us to assess the success of the queens before offering them for sale or selecting them to head colonies. Pre and post
Queen Rearing at Bishop’s Bees
We’ve had a busy year so far with our Instrumental Insemination and experimenting with new methods to help increase success and queen care. By selecting good quality queens as drone mothers and queen mothers our inseminated queens should head productive
Instrumental insemination of queen honey bees
Instrumental insemination of queen honey bees is the process of directly inseminating a queen bee, a bit like the artificial insemination of other farmed livestock. Therefore, as with other farming industries, this means that we can provide you with queens