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Queen Rearing Calendar

The weather forecast covers the next 15 days. You can check back and enter your grafting date to see the forecast covering the mating flight period nearer the time.

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Age Day Date Task/Event Notes Weather
0 Sunday 22/12/2024 Egg layed by breeder/mother queen
1 Monday 23/12/2024
2 Tuesday 24/12/2024
3 Wednesday 25/12/2024 Graft day old larvae and put into queenless hive Number of cells grafted:
Conditions: Overcast
Min: 7.4°C | Max: 10°C
Wind: 12.5kph
4 Thursday 26/12/2024
Conditions: Partially cloudy
Min: 7.1°C | Max: 9.8°C
Wind: 4.7kph
5 Friday 27/12/2024 Check grafts, bees should have started drawing the cells Number of cells accepted:
Conditions: Partially cloudy
Min: 5.6°C | Max: 9.1°C
Wind: 2.9kph
6 Saturday 28/12/2024
Conditions: Overcast
Min: 7.5°C | Max: 9.6°C
Wind: 8.3kph
7 Sunday 29/12/2024
Conditions: Partially cloudy
Min: 5.7°C | Max: 8.5°C
Wind: 13.3kph
8 Monday 30/12/2024 Cells are capped
Conditions: Rain, Overcast
Min: 6.6°C | Max: 10.3°C
Wind: 23kph
9 Tuesday 31/12/2024 Avoid moving cells/be gentle if opening hive
Conditions: Rain, Partially cloudy
Min: 8.5°C | Max: 11.4°C
Wind: 32kph
10 Wednesday 01/01/2025 Avoid moving cells/be gentle if opening hive
Conditions: Rain, Overcast
Min: 6°C | Max: 12°C
Wind: 39.6kph
11 Thursday 02/01/2025 Avoid moving cells/be gentle if opening hive
Conditions: Snow, Rain, Partially cloudy
Min: 1.6°C | Max: 5.6°C
Wind: 12.6kph
12 Friday 03/01/2025 Move cells to mating nucs
Conditions: Snow, Rain
Min: 0.9°C | Max: 4.6°C
Wind: 13kph
13 Saturday 04/01/2025
Conditions: Overcast
Min: 0.9°C | Max: 4.1°C
Wind: 15.4kph
14 Sunday 05/01/2025
Conditions: Overcast
Min: 1.9°C | Max: 10°C
Wind: 20.9kph
15 Monday 06/01/2025 Queens should emerge
Conditions: Partially cloudy
Min: 7.6°C | Max: 10.6°C
Wind: 20.9kph
16 Tuesday 07/01/2025
Conditions: Overcast
Min: 3°C | Max: 7.7°C
Wind: 26.6kph
17 Wednesday 08/01/2025 Remove empty queen cell
Conditions: Partially cloudy
Min: 0.7°C | Max: 3.6°C
Wind: 16.9kph
18 Thursday 09/01/2025
19 Friday 10/01/2025
20 Saturday 11/01/2025 Mating flight period starts
21 Sunday 12/01/2025
22 Monday 13/01/2025
23 Tuesday 14/01/2025
24 Wednesday 15/01/2025
25 Thursday 16/01/2025
26 Friday 17/01/2025
27 Saturday 18/01/2025
28 Sunday 19/01/2025
29 Monday 20/01/2025
30 Tuesday 21/01/2025
31 Wednesday 22/01/2025
32 Thursday 23/01/2025
33 Friday 24/01/2025 Check nuc for eggs
34 Saturday 25/01/2025
35 Sunday 26/01/2025
36 Monday 27/01/2025
37 Tuesday 28/01/2025
38 Wednesday 29/01/2025 Check nuc for larvae
39 Thursday 30/01/2025
40 Friday 31/01/2025 If no eggs or larvae re-queen nuc