A Mating Yard is a term for an apiary which consists primarily of queen mating nucs and hives which raise drones. A Queen bee must mate in order to lay fertilized eggs, which develop into workers.
Read more about Mating Yard: Mating Nucs, Drone Producing Hives, Open Mating
Famous quotes containing the words mating and/or yard:
“He’s one of those know-it-all types that, if you flatter the wig off him, he chatter like a goony bird at mating time.”
—Michael Blankfort. Lewis Milestone. Johnson (Reginald Gardner)
“I’ve stayed in the front yard all my life.
I want a peek at the back
Where it’s rough and untended and hungry weed grows.
A girl gets sick of a rose.”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)