On Wed, 25 Feb 1998, Aaron Morris wrote:
> For those unfamiliar with the Jenter system, it consists of a plastic
> frame with queen excluder grids on front and back, into which a queen
> can be confined and forced/enduced to lay eggs into little plastic queen
> cups which can then be given to cell builder colonies.  Advantages are
> that the queen cups will all have eggs of the same age (only hours
> variation in age vs days) and since the eggs are laid directly in the
> queen cups, no larval grafting is necessary.  I purchased the system
> because my eyes are bad enough that if I can see a larva it is too
> big/old to graft.
 
My first inkling that my eyes were not what they used to be came when I
tried grafting larvae in the queen breeding course at Olds college.
Fortunately, I was able to get a magnifier that fastens to a headband and
makes the job relatively easy. You certainly can't graft what you can't
see!
 
Donald Aitken
11710-129 Street
Edmonton Alberta Canada
T5M 0Y7