• image of ad for BetterBee.com that says Your Partners in Better Beekeeping with the phone number 1-800-632-3379 and the link to betterbee.com

Thanks to these sponsors, you can enjoy this website without annoying popup ads!
You can show your appreciation by clicking on their banners above to go directly to their websites.

Starting colony buildup calculator


I wrote about initial colony buildup at https://scientificbeekeeping.com/modeling-nuc-buildup/ 

I created a spreadsheet model that allows you to estimate and visualize how different methods of starting colonies affects the colony age structure and growth.  I works for package, nucs started with laying queens, queen cells, or walkaway splits.

Nuc calculator May 2022