Abstract:
Queen bee rearing process includes forming a family of nurse bees by removing the queen and the combs with unhatched brood, introducing the frame with transferred larvae into the nest and feeding the nurse bees with a mixture of 50% sugar syrup and 1.0-3.0 ml/L of 2% aqueous solution of hexaaminocobalt(III) chloride in an amount of 1.0 L of the mixture per family of bees, daily for 5 days, from the introduction of the frame with transferred larvae until the hives are hatched.