Raise Queens Without Grafting | The Forgotten Hopkins Method

Raise queens without grafting using one of beekeeping’s most distinctive historical queen-rearing systems: the Hopkins Method.

Instead of transferring tiny larvae into artificial queen cups, the Hopkins Method leaves young brood in its original wax cells and changes the orientation of the comb itself. A prepared brood comb is placed horizontally above a strong queenless cell-building colony, allowing the bees to use their natural emergency queen-rearing response to convert selected worker cells into queen cells.

In this episode of Forgotten Methods of Beekeeping: Season 2, we examine:

• How the Hopkins Method raises queen cells without conventional grafting
• Why very young brood is esse…