Queen Cell Incubator Humidity

This is a queen cell incubator.

Queen cell incubator humidity.

If you use tissue culture plates or dishes the incubator must be humidified to prevent evaporation. When the bees cap off the queen cells they have finished feeding them. I then move the cell bars with the capped queen cells to the incubator. Sealed flasks can be kept in dry incubators.

It is portable making it easy to transport queen cells or frames of brood from the hive indoors for grafting in addition to storing capped queen cells or virgin queens until they are placed in mating. I keep the humidity between 60 and 80 which is hard to do. The foam tray can be removed and placed in a larger incubator or hot water cupboard overnight. I also added to 1 1 4 holes on each side down low and one hole in the top for oxygen.

Other incubators have an automatically regulated humidity. These are my extra cells i did not put directl. Keep a moist towel over the cells to keep humidity levels higher. Temperature control is critical for larvae to develop whilst accurate humidity control is a desirable addition.

Some incubators have a pan of water in them to humidify the atmosphere. The relative humidity for tissue culture incubators is usually 95 helping to prevent evaporation of culture media. Note a sheet of metal is placed over the light bulbs to avoid direct radiant heating of the comb or queen cells placed in the incubator. It s set to run at 35c and 55 humidity.

I keep the temperature a constant 92 degrees f. Our 5 frame queen cell incubator includes the ranco etc 11100 000 digital temperature controller for precise temperature control within 1 degree. Queen bee cell incubators the incubators and accessories in our bee keeping section are specifically designed to provide the conditions necessary for successful queen bee cell incubation.