Starting a jenter cycle

[MJBee]

Given a forecast of 7 days of decent weather I have put the Jenter cage frame into the Queen mother hive to get their scent. This hive is bursting with bees and has 3 supers also full of bees, finding the queen is going to be a challenge she is marked though. Watch this space.

 

[beebreeder]

If you cannot find the queen you could always find a frame of recently hatched eggs, ideally 12 hour old larvae and graft them onto the brown cell holders then assemble the lot into the cell frame, it saves three days and you do not have to find the queen.