Anthony Appleyard
House Bee
How often does a beekeeper fínd a hive "hopelessly queenless" and remedy the matter by transplanting a single queen cell with a queen egg or queen larva in, or two or more at a time? In a book about beekeeping about the 1960's I read that at the end-of-winter cleanout a beekeeper was watching a hive's entrance to see what rubbish they were bringing out, and one bee was (with some difficulty) carrying a large dressmaker's pin that he had used the year before to pin a transplanted queen cell to one of the combs.
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