--- Bob Harrison <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

> Hello Isis & All,
>
> I said:
> >Most commercial beekeepers raise their own
> queens/cells or buy cells.
>
> Cells are what the California queen producers do not
> what you to learn
> about.
>
> Bob
>
One consideration concerning buying queens instead of
cells is that introduced queens, if accepted, start
laying within a day or two of release, hopefully
prolifically.  With cells you have to wait for the day
or two or three before they emerge.  Then there is the
three to hopefully less than seven day wait for them
to fly and mate, and then the time it takes for them
to start laying.  Time between cell purchase and
having a laying queen, four days to ten?  At
approximately 1000 up to 2000 eggs a day that would
add up to anywhere between 2000 to 16,000 workers the
caged queen would have on the cell queen.  Hive is
stronger, faster, with the caged queen.  Course, my
math could be wrong but it's approximate.

Mike



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