>
> >If you have watched Paul Kelly at UGuelph and Devan Rawn on YouTube, they
> cage HRH in a roller cage for safety during inspections.


I also often do the above, with a JZsBzs cage (which I carry in my pocket)
when a hive manipulation is going to be "rough" or when I'm adding a number
of workers from another hive.  I simply plug the cage lightly with soft
green vegetation (since I don't carry candy or marshmallow) so that the
queen can be released shortly after I close the hive back up.

>Mr. Aebi mentions a few times that he and his dad felt the bees were
> demoralized by too-invasive inspections.
>

That premise is not supported by hard data from Farrar or Harris, who noted
increased broodrearing after the rearrangement of frames during colony
buildup (similar to what you described).

-- 
Randy Oliver
Grass Valley, CA
www.ScientificBeekeeping.com

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