Building your own queen honey bee mating hive - The Patterson mini nuc

Roger Patterson explains how he has developed nuc and mini nuc boxes for honey bee queen mating, honed after years of experience raising between 100 and 150 queens a year. Roger talks through what's influenced and driven his designs, and runs through how to create a mini mating nuc box using standard brood box pieces you can purchase from bee equipment suppliers, as well as the frames. To avoid annoyance we don’t enable adverts on our videos. If you wished to contribute to our costs of helping beekeepers, please consider a small donation via this link: https://bibba.com/donate/