an Anne Bennett snip followed by my comments..
What would be your concern in this respect?

> I raise more than a few queen each year and have found it best to leave things largely* undisturbed till there is a nice patch of larvae in the hive.  This of course adds at least 3 days to the process but if a hive is disturb greatly before there is significant young larvae in the hive there is a good chance the queen (or virgin queen) may be harmed in the process. The larger the population the greater the chances that beekeeper intervention will do more harm than good.  One of the problems in teaching people to rear queens is to instill in them the virtue of patience. 

*largely meaning quite often I do pop the lid and check for population and may even add a bit of feed if the mating unit is light. 
 

Gene in California and enjoying he fine weather...

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