At 07:53 AM 11/30/2005, you wrote:
>Do others on the list candle cells? Have others heard of the candling of
>queen cells around the world?

I pretty much consider it a must.  A couple seconds checking each cell before heading out to place them in hives or nucs saves lots of time in the long run (two wasted trips to the hive to place the cell and check on the queen after mating, plus the extended period of time the hive will go without a queen.)  Plus you can do some weeding out of undersized queens if you have extra cells.  Bigger cells doesn't always mean bigger or better queens, I've seen many that just have extra uneaten jelly, or where the larva has fallen (eventually dying) and the workers have extended the cell.

-Tim


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