Transplanting queen cells in the rain!!

[lindamary]

I was planning to remove and transplant some Q cells today (2 days to hatching) but it's bucketing down with rain and forecast is not good. Has anybody done this in adverse conditions? I will wait for a break in the weather or hope tomorrow will be better but that may be cutting it a bit fine. Any advice would be most welcome.

 

[ratcatcher]

I haven't done queen cells, but have done inspections by putting up a cheap gazebo over the hive, worked ok

 

[lindamary]

queen cells in the rain

Yes, good idea - don't have a gazebo but will take mating hives into polytunnel anyway for transplanting. Will still have to remove cells from field hive though. Hey Ho! Nothing ventured, nothing gained........