A young queen exactly when you need it.
Sounds nice, doesn’t it?
Would you like…
- young queens for replacements?
- young queens for splits
- to expand your apiary and grow your operation?
- more convenient times for getting queens?
- to schedule the timing of future requeening efforts to match when you are available to make splits?
- to routinely requeen before winter?
- to have a deeper understanding of the honey bee life cycle?
Tyler Lane is the owner of Amanita Apiaries, a Des Moines-based beekeeping operation focused on honey production. A stay at-home mom turned beekeeper wrote a grant focused on the impact of mushroom extracts on viral levels in production honeybee colonies, and spent the majority of 2020 navigating the project during a pandemic. She mentored under Jason Foley, allowing her to diversify with a queen breeding program. She also participates in California almond pollination and community outreach and education.
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When: Sat., June 21, 2025
Where: Elkhart, IA
What: Agenda for the day
Classroom work
Biology and influencing factors in quality of queens
Grafting and some alternatives
Timing while grafting and mating
Exploring equipment and materials needed
Drone research
Creating cell builders and finishing colonies
Queen mating
Benefits of locally raised queens
Breeder queens and genetics
Common issues
Practice wet grafting using yard tools and larva
In the Yard:
Cloake Board demonstration
Understanding and utilizing the cell builder
Creating mating nucs for finished cells
How to transport, install and succeed with your cells
Lunch
Wrap with questions and answers
Limit of 10 participants.
Tyler Lane is the owner of Amanita Apiaries, a Des Moines-based beekeeping operation focused on honey production. A stay at-home mom turned beekeeper, Tyler was also Principal Investigator of a Specialty Crop Block Grant with IDALS focused on the impact of mushroom extracts on viral levels in production honey bee colonies, and spent the majority of 2020 navigating the project during a pandemic. She mentored under Jason Foley, allowing her to diversify with a queen breeding program. She also participates in California almond pollination and community outreach and education.