On Wed, 7 Aug 1996, Vince Coppola wrote: > On Tue, 6 Aug 1996, Ian Watson wrote: > > > Hello all..:) > > > > I also have a question about raising a queen..I have a buchfast > > colony..and I made up a five frame nuc. I checked carefully to make sure > > the queen didnt come with it....Now i have just checked it after about 8-9 > > days..and there are at least 6 queen cups...i see the curled up larva > > covered with royal jelly....Success!!!! > > Success ? Perhaps. What you have are emergency cells. Doolittle > told us 100 years ago that these produce inferior queens. > Umm...How do you know they are emergency cells?....what do they look like?..how are they different from the "right" kind of queen cells? Ian Watson [log in to unmask]