Welcome,
Guest
Login
or
Register
Need Bees Removed?
Home
Help
Search
Login
Register
Beemaster's International Beekeeping Forum
»
BEEKEEPING LEARNING CENTER
»
REQUEENING & RAISING NEW QUEENS
»
Color code
« previous
next »
Print
Pages: [
1
]
Go Down
Author
Topic: Color code (Read 6141 times)
drone1952
New Bee
Posts: 27
Gender:
Color code
«
on:
August 24, 2010, 04:14:31 am »
For how long the color code is used and what is in particular the importance of this.
Logged
http://stiridinstuparit.blogspot.com/
European Beekeeping Forum
http://api.3xforum.ro/
Michael Bush
Universal Bee
Posts: 19941
Gender:
Re: Color code
«
Reply #1 on:
August 24, 2010, 04:57:18 am »
I don't know when the international standard was arrived at. The importance is that at a glance you know the age of the queen.
http://bushfarms.com/beesqueenrearing.htm#colors
Logged
My website:
bushfarms.com/bees.htm
en espanol:
bushfarms.com/es_bees.htm
auf deutsche:
bushfarms.com/de_bees.htm
em portugues:
bushfarms.com/pt_bees.htm
My book:
ThePracticalBeekeeper.com
-------------------
"Everything works if you let it."--James "Big Boy" Medlin
tecumseh
House Bee
Posts: 393
Gender:
Re: Color code
«
Reply #2 on:
August 25, 2010, 09:10:50 am »
what year establish... well I don't know.
and if your bees are highly hygienic and the paint color happens to be wrong shade then after the girls remove the little dot it tells you very little.
Logged
I am 'the panther that passes in the night'... tecumseh.
rdy-b
Super Bee
Posts: 2286
Re: Color code
«
Reply #3 on:
August 28, 2010, 02:26:34 am »
Quote from: drone1952 on August 24, 2010, 04:14:31 am
For how long the color code is used and what is in particular the importance of this.
used 12 months then color changes---importance is-everybody is on the same calendar-RDY-B
Logged
Jim134
Galactic Bee
Posts: 3057
Gender:
Re: Color code
«
Reply #4 on:
August 28, 2010, 08:02:40 am »
Quote from: drone1952 on August 24, 2010, 04:14:31 am
For how long the color code is used and what is in particular the importance of this.
For Jan 1 to Dec 31 The importance of this so you can tell the age of the queen If color is missing did the bees re-queen them self's
BEE HAPPY Jim 134 :)
Logged
"Tell me and I'll forget,show me and I may remember,involve me and I'll understand"
Chinese Proverb
"The farmer is the only man in our economy who buys everything at retail, sells everything at wholesale, and pays the freight both ways."
John F. Kennedy
Franklin County Beekeepers Association MA.
http://www.franklinmabeekeepers.org/
iddee
Universal Bee
Posts: 10855
Gender:
Re: Color code
«
Reply #5 on:
August 28, 2010, 11:07:23 pm »
http://www.guilfordbeekeepers.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/Queen-ID-Colors1.gif
Logged
"Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me . . . Anything can happen, child. Anything can be"
*Shel Silverstein*
OzBuzz
Queen Bee
Posts: 1031
Re: Color code
«
Reply #6 on:
August 31, 2010, 02:24:50 am »
I spoke to a beek the other week who suggested using those little tins of hobby paint that people use to paint model planes - he said cut the pointy end off a 3" nail and dip this in the paint slightly and then dab it on the queen... has anyone used this technique over the commercially available marking pens? Also, who has used the numbered dots? I'd be interested in those for the purposes of record keeping - are they easy to use?
Logged
Hemlock
Field Bee
Posts: 632
Gender:
Re: Color code
«
Reply #7 on:
October 19, 2010, 12:09:36 pm »
When I went to requeen earlier this year i found an Unmarked queen instead of the Marked one. Not only does this tell me the colony requeened itself, and about when, but that they went through TWO requeenings this year (including mine). Which explains to me why that colony is slightly behind the others in production. Otherwise i might be scratching my head trying to figure it out.
Logged
Make Mead!
KD4MOJ
Field Bee
Posts: 719
Gender:
Bees... Motorcycles... amateur radio...
Re: Color code
«
Reply #8 on:
October 20, 2010, 08:35:02 am »
Hemlock:
Maybe they just had a thing about the color blue! :-D
...DOUG
KD4MOJ
Logged
Hemlock
Field Bee
Posts: 632
Gender:
Re: Color code
«
Reply #9 on:
October 20, 2010, 12:27:36 pm »
Doug,
But it matched so well with the Paisley wallpaper in the honey supers! I guess I'll need to take a Feng-shui class now... :-D
Logged
Make Mead!
tecumseh
House Bee
Posts: 393
Gender:
Re: Color code
«
Reply #10 on:
October 21, 2010, 09:30:19 am »
snip..
The importance of this so you can tell the age of the queen If color is missing did the bees re-queen them self's
tecumseh:
maybe yes and maybe no. just casually it appears to me the paint used to mark queens last about one year max. some colors (red for example) seem not to last longer than 30 days.
Logged
I am 'the panther that passes in the night'... tecumseh.
organicfarmer
House Bee
Posts: 126
Gender:
Re: Color code
«
Reply #11 on:
January 30, 2011, 11:52:17 pm »
there is a little mnemotechnic to remember color code of the queens
Wouldn't You Raise Great Bees?
White(1 &6), Yellow(2&7), Red (3&8), Green (4&9), Blue (5&0)
Logged
Print
Pages: [
1
]
Go Up
« previous
next »
Beemaster's International Beekeeping Forum
»
BEEKEEPING LEARNING CENTER
»
REQUEENING & RAISING NEW QUEENS
»
Color code