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)
“He slipped his hand and ran away!
He hadn’t gone a yard when—Bang!
With open jaws, a lion sprang,
And hungrily began to eat
The boy: beginning at his feet.”
—Hilaire Belloc (1870–1953)