Dear BEE-L friends,

I have a question concerning removing yang mated queens from small nucs.
What is the best moment to do that? I could find only one answer in my
beekeeping books, it was from Russian professor Avetisian (Avetisjan). He
says that it is just after queen starts laying. Opposite to that can be more
logical for me but I am not sure and there are not other references.
I practice putting ten days old queen cells in nucs instead of producing
virgin queens in incubators and always when I have to move a fertile queen,
I am a bit sad.

best regards

Predrag Cvetkovic, Serbia

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