Sunday 6 July 2008

Grafting Queen Cells

Today we grafted another two bars of cells (about 30), we use a queenless colony as a starter/finisher,but have had disappointing results with about a 50 % take.
Tomorrow I will check and see how many are accepted in the first 24hrs as I think the bees may be reducing the number of cells they're finishing. In which case we'll finish the cells above a queen excluder in a queen-right colony.

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