{"id":102,"date":"2012-12-07T12:59:07","date_gmt":"2012-12-07T18:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sweetmountainfarm.com\/?page_id=102"},"modified":"2024-02-21T14:08:07","modified_gmt":"2024-02-21T20:08:07","slug":"russian-queen-bees","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sweetmountainfarm.com\/index.php\/russian-bees\/russian-queen-bees","title":{"rendered":"Russian Queen Bee"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-3463 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/sweetmountainfarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/RussianQbyAllenLieu-300x232.jpg\" alt=\"RussianQbyAllenLieu\" width=\"426\" height=\"329\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sweetmountainfarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/RussianQbyAllenLieu-300x232.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sweetmountainfarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/RussianQbyAllenLieu-776x600.jpg 776w, https:\/\/sweetmountainfarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/RussianQbyAllenLieu.jpg 1307w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 426px) 100vw, 426px\" \/>Russian Queen Bee efficiently manages resources.<\/h3>\n<p>An Italian, Carniolan, or other bee colony can be re-queened using Russian Queens. The detailed process is explained in the research paper below.<\/p>\n<p>It takes\u00a0sometimes up to\u00a010 days to introduce a new Russian queen bee into the colony.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The first hive inspection is to see if the\u00a0 queen is laying. This may take up to two additional weeks after the introduction.<\/li>\n<li>It is very difficult to locate the Russian Queen once she is released into the colony\u00a0even when she is marked and\/or clipped.<\/li>\n<li>Often times an inspection will depend upon finding eggs rather than the queen.<\/li>\n<li>Russian bees produce more <a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outgoing\/www.merriam-webster.com\/dictionary\/supersedure');\" title=\"Merriam Webster Defines Supersedure\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.merriam-webster.com\/dictionary\/supersedure\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">supersedure <\/a>cells than other breeds. This is normal and is not a sign of a weak queen.<\/li>\n<li>A virgin queen will emerge from its cell on day 16 like other breeds, however, a newly mated and egg producing Russian queen can take\u00a0another 20 days to start laying. From egg to egg laying is approximately 36 days.<\/li>\n<li>A distinguished characteristic of the Russian Queen is her ability to shut down egg production when resources are low and dramatically increase egg production when resources are plentiful.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>David R. Tarpy, Department of Entomology, North Carolina State University and Jeffrey Lee, Commercial Beekeeper, Lee&#8217;s Bees, Mebane, NC has a\u00a0<a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outgoing\/content.ces.ncsu.edu\/comparison-of-russian-and-italian-honey-bees');\" title=\"A comparison of Russian and Italian Honey Bees\"  href=\"https:\/\/content.ces.ncsu.edu\/comparison-of-russian-and-italian-honey-bees\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">detailed paper\u00a0<\/a>written on the differences between Russian and Italian honey bees. <a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outgoing\/content.ces.ncsu.edu\/comparison-of-russian-and-italian-honey-bees');\"  href=\"https:\/\/content.ces.ncsu.edu\/comparison-of-russian-and-italian-honey-bees\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Steps to re-queen are on page 3. <\/a>The paper outlines the steps to re-queening an Italian colony with a Russian queen. <a title=\"Russian Bee Early Season Management\" href=\"https:\/\/sweetmountainfarm.com\/index.php\/russian-bees\/russian-bee-early-season-management\">(Next Early Season Management)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px; text-align: center;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo by Allan Liu<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3463,"parent":54,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-102","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.8.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Russian Queen Bee Washington Island WI Sweet Mountain Farm<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Russian Queen Bee explains how Russians are different than Italians with instructions to re-queen an Italian colony with Russian queens.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, 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