>You want the queen confined for a couple of days.

Did you test that Pete? Others have found that you can do immediate walk in
if they are freshly emerged. I've done so a number of times--but haven't
kept data (due to early emergence of cells).

Well, they aren't freshly emerged, when you do it in an incubator and then mark them. I would be very hesitant to "just walk in" any queen I cared about. There is no harm in caging them. Somebody else will have to experiment with releasing uncaged queens into hives. Presumably it could work under certain circumstances, but I can scarcely see what there is to gain.

plb

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