On 12/08/2011 2:54 AM, charlie wrote:

We bank virgins regularly for a few days if the weather is wet.  There 
is no candy in these cages.

We used to use Cloak's system, but in my dottage these days, just a 
strong queenright colony.  Excluder on the brood box and we lift a frame 
of brood and a comb with plenty of pollen into the super.  The cells go 
between the two.  This is where the virgins will also go if we need to 
do that.   I have had them there on occasion for a fortnight with only 
an occasional loss.  I might add that I have never used those kept that 
long so do not know if they would mate successfuly.

Geoff Manning

NE NSW Australia

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