Queen Rearing Course

The course is run every other year and will show the Grafting and Miller Method of queen rearing for the hobbyist beekeeper to raise a few queens or to rear a larger volume of queens. The course will take each delegate through:

  • Setting up cell raiser environment
  • Selecting the best colonies and queens to breed from
  • Production of queen cells
  • Distribution of queen cells and apideas
  • Evaluation of Mated queens
  • Queen introduction
  • How to look after a mini nuc
  • Clipping and Marking a queen

The Queen Rearing Course will take place over 2 days (weekend) from 10:00 – 16:30 – the next course is 2028

Contact Us to book your place. Queen Rearing Apiary in Wisley, Woking, Surrey

All attendees will be provided with one of the queens or queen cells reared from the course on the 2nd session in an apidea to keep.