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Introducing Kiril Marinov from Bulgaria<\/strong>, beekeeper since 2005, talking about Bee Queen’s Protective Reflex<\/strong>. He believes that this special queen behavior is important to be known by beekeepers because many queen bees are killed meaningless due to ignorance of the phenomenon.<\/p>\n

“I have been a beekeeper since 2005. By 2014, I had 150 bee families and I was involved in the production of queens and swarms, semi-professionally, in addition to my main occupation – an automation and mechanics engineer.<\/p>\n

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In the same 2014, I signed contracts for the production of 300 bee swarms, so I had to produce 300 queens, respectively. I was able to handle this difficult task alone.<\/p>\n

During the production process, I encountered a strange behavior of bee queens (6 of them, not all of them).<\/p>\n

It is most likely an unconditional reflex (or an instinct acquired over the millennia, to be examined and proved.). I call it the Bee Queen’s Protective Reflex<\/p>\n

On a nice sunny day, I had to mark another group of queens with the color of the year.<\/p>\n

Everything was going fine, but a rather fast and stubborn queen put me in difficulty.<\/p>\n

I managed to mark it and released the pressure and, to my surprise, queen stopped moving!<\/p>\n

I called a known queen producer to ask him, what is it? Has he encountered such a phenomenon?<\/p>\n

He told me – Yes! The queen is dead, just tear her head and throw it away.<\/p>\n

But since I was curious as a child, I thought: I will easily tear her head off, but I certainly will not be able to put it back in place! Something was telling me that there was more to come in this event! I decided that it was impossible for the queen to die from the slight pressure.<\/p>\n

I carefully placed the queen at the bottom of the hive where the bees surrounded her and started licking her. And the miracle happened. After a few minutes the queen moved. I closed the hive and proceeded to the next marking.<\/p>\n

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The next day I opened the hive and saw that the queen was laying eggs, as if nothing had happened!<\/p>\n

The same year the same incident happened 5 more times with other queens!<\/p>\n

I suppose paralysis is intended to mislead the attacker (the bird that caught her during the marriage flight) by pretending to be dead or really fainting like other animals from stress – these are just guesswork. We will certainly get answers to this many other questions in time!”<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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