Hello folks,

Is there anyone out there that uses wooden cell cups to graft into?  I
recently got some and was wondering how to prepare them so that I can graft
the larvae into them.  DO they need to be wax coated on the inside?  I
appreciate any help I can get on this matter!!

Also, I have a very strong colony that just lost its queen about 3 days
ago...  Can I use it to put the grafted queen cells into.  Should I leave
them there until they are capped...?  Or take them and put them into a
queenright colony for finishing, making sure the queen is below an excluder?
 Please advise me what to do...  I have lots of bees available, so number of
colonies is not really a problem.

Thanks,

Carm