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The video on queen rearing that B+ shared has a fiddlier alternative to the cell punch using a knife and cutting out cells. I think the Miller method might be easier although you cannot really control how many cells you are going to get.
I think the Miller method might be easier although you cannot really control how many cells you are going to get.
That's a really wasteful method. Grafting (or similar techniques - e.g. punched cells) are much more efficient
That is not true. I do not understand "wastefull".
When a colony is in the swarming mode you may get good Queen cells just like that..
That is not true. I do not understand "wastefull".
When a colony is in the swarming mode you may get good Queen cells just like that.
At same time when the colony is thinking swarming, it does the wanted queens. No need to make started hives or something else delicacy.
For each cell grafted, all those around it are sacrificed. Very wasteful
Using Demarree for swarm avoidance gives you plenty of good quality Queen cells for nuc building or mating hives.
thanks for this j.....
does it matter that you dont know what age the larvae was that was used for the emergency q cells?
thanks for this j.....
does it matter that you dont know what age the larvae was that was used for the emergency q cells?
Oh dear...
And in Miller method larva is not grafted.
By "grafted" I simply meant "transferred". In the case of cutting cells, you are transferring the cell to a split cell holder (not very common here in the UK). I didn't mean the physical removal of a larva and placing it in another cell.
The cell cutting method is very wasteful.
There was a paper published last year (I think Erichalfbee shared it on here) that suggested that whatever we do to try and influence them, the bees will only chose the cells they want or think viable and only with the genes they desire.
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