Allan Said:
Going from memory, it seems to me that Steve Tabor tried grafting eggs and
found problems with doing so.


Allan's memory is good. I think the bee venom might have a role in
that!!!!!

Yes, honey bees cannibalized a good percentage of grafted eggs by Taber.
Therefore, the best option to raise quality queens as suggested by Laidlaw
is:
        1. graft larvae as young as <12-18 h.
        2. use a swarm box as a starter for 24 h to start grafted queen
cells
        2. Use queen right finisher colony to finish raising the queen
cells.
        3. The swarm box and queen right finisher should have a lots of
young workers and amble amount of pollen or pollen supplement.

Thus, the best conditions will be available to raise quality queens. Don't
forget to select the queen mother to use her larvae for grafting larvae
with desirable genetic traits, eh.

Nowadays, there are several variations of this method, but all of them
have the same principles.

medhat

Medhat Nasr, Ph. D.
Provincial Apiculturist
Crop Diversification Centre North

17507 Fort Road
Edmonton, AB, Canada T5Y 6H3
Tel: (780) 415-2314    Fax: (780) 422-6096
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