Ever Lost a Queen in the Car

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A little tip.
Sunday I lost a new queen in the car as I tried to remove the workers from the travel/introduction cage.
The previous time I had let all the workers out of the car and had to rely on SWMBO to find the missing queen hiding in a door compartment.
This time I still had several workers flying around the car. I left them to it and returned 15mins later to find they had located the queen and were feeding her at window height. I will do this again in future. Some of the ladies can be very quick when they want to.:hurray:
 
Your last sentence is Soooooo true Brian:svengo:

I now remove the workers in the bathroom - Loo seat down plugs in bath, shower and hand basin = no where to go but the window and fairly easy to catch her maj against the glass.
 
Easy. Don't remove the workers.

There's no need to and in most instances it makes not one jot of difference to your introduction.

I never have and I've never had a problem.
 
Easy. Don't remove the workers.

There's no need to and in most instances it makes not one jot of difference to your introduction.

I never have and I've never had a problem.

I agree, why remove workers?

Never seen workers cause an issue if its a slow introduction.
 
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