{"id":179,"date":"2019-06-04T12:06:43","date_gmt":"2019-06-04T12:06:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sophiaphysics.ie\/?p=179"},"modified":"2019-06-04T12:06:43","modified_gmt":"2019-06-04T12:06:43","slug":"queen-finding-and-marking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sophiaphysics.ie\/index.php\/2019\/06\/04\/queen-finding-and-marking\/","title":{"rendered":"Queen Finding and Marking"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sophiaphysics.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/IMG_3259-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-174\" width=\"438\" height=\"329\"\/><figcaption>An unmarked queen is captured in a &#8216;queen capture bottle&#8217;. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A bright colour ink is often used to mark a queen so that she can be easily seen and identified within the hive. A simple kit comprising a perspex bottle with &#8216;queen excluder&#8217; type bottom and a soft sponge plunger is used to capture and separate the queen from other bees  inadvertently captured as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The plunger is then used to press the queen against the groves on the bottle bottom where she can be marked with a special pen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sophiaphysics.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/IMG_3260-e1559649545407-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-175\" width=\"379\" height=\"505\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sophiaphysics.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/IMG_3260-e1559649545407-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sophiaphysics.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/IMG_3260-e1559649545407-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 379px) 100vw, 379px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sophiaphysics.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/IMG_3238-e1559649752631-1024x844.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-173\" width=\"398\" height=\"327\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sophiaphysics.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/IMG_3238-e1559649752631-1024x844.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sophiaphysics.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/IMG_3238-e1559649752631-300x247.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sophiaphysics.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/IMG_3238-e1559649752631-768x633.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 398px) 100vw, 398px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>These cells contain barely visible eggs.<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>A bright colour ink is often used to mark a queen so that she can be easily seen and identified within the hive. A simple <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sophiaphysics.ie\/index.php\/2019\/06\/04\/queen-finding-and-marking\/\" title=\"Queen Finding and Marking\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[22,23],"class_list":["post-179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bee-wise","tag-queen-capture","tag-queen-marking"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sophiaphysics.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sophiaphysics.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sophiaphysics.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sophiaphysics.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sophiaphysics.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sophiaphysics.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":181,"href":"https:\/\/sophiaphysics.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions\/181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sophiaphysics.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sophiaphysics.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sophiaphysics.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}