Three weeks ago, about half a batch of my queen cells emerged a day 
early while they were still in the finisher hive.  I caught 
approximately 20 virgins that were walking around inside the finisher 
hive.  As I caught them, I put them directly onto the top bars of 
5-frame queenless nucs with no introduction cages.  They were ignored by 
the bees in the queenless hives.  I checked back on a few of these nucs 
last week, and the queens dropped in as virgins were laying successfully. 

Jeremy Rose
San Luis Obispo, CA

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