Flyer

In beekeeping, setting up a flyer is a method for the beekeeper to rebuild a colony (offshoots) . Here is the bee colony adjusted in the spring and the flown bees return to the old location of their people with a Futterwabe , brood comb and middle walls equipped prey available. The bees move from the open brood to queen bees , the first of which usually hatches after sixteen days and kills its sisters. After her wedding flight she begins to lay eggs, with which a new colony is established.

If the (old) queen is also added to the flyer (offshoot), one speaks of a queen flyer.

literature

Gerhard Liebig: Simply beekeeping . 2nd edition, self-published, Aichtal 2002.