> In David LaFerney's excellent "Beginner to Beginner Queen Rearing", he
> mentions that he got much bigger and better fed cells when he primed his
> cell builder colony with a frame of young, open brood 4 days before queen
> cell graft introduction, presumably because this gets all the nurse bees
> in max brood food production mode.

Surely this is what all competent queen  breeders do in some form?  While
some when grafting may use the 'hunt and peck' method of choosing larvae, it
is much easier and convenient when producing large numbers to set up so that
the queen mother is contained on one frame for one day which is then removed
and then used to graft larvae that is only one day old.

Geoff Manning

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