Wouldsome one please discribe the JZBZ plastic queen cages
and there advantages
thanks
Vince B Constable
 
>As a commercial queen producer I have used JZBZ plastic queen
>cages to ship my queen for the past couple years. They are very
>handy both for the queen producer and the beekeeper.
>
>Used for introduction in nucs they give very good acceptance.  In
>my opinion the JZBZ cage corrects one of the major problem of the
>standard tree hole wooden cage.  With the tree whole cage the
>time required for the bees of the host colony to eat up the candy
>is not predictable.  Sometimes the queen is released too soon,
>sometime only 7 days after introduction.  Neither is good.
>
>Some of my customers report that acceptance is full size colonies
>is not good at all with JZBZ cages.  I experienced myself bad
>results at certain occasions.  One Manitoba producer told me that
>he will never use JZBZ cages again.  Robert Page from California
>told me that according to his tests, the queens get a lot of foot
>damage when they are used for banking.  I never bank queens but
>some of my customers do and I had reports of queens killed while
>banked!
>
>I am wondering if I should switch to another type of cage.
>(Maybe I would give a try to the new Koehnen cage.)  I would like
>to hear other people's experience on this before I make my
>decision.
>
>
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