I would like to second this, I think it would be very helpful to exchange info on queen rearing this spring. I plan on raise as many queens as I can get this spring and would be like to pass along information on progress, maybe someone could point out mistakes. I won't start until april 15th that is when bees start returning from california, but would like to see others post their experiences until then. The method I plan on using is the Jenter queen rearing box, and also try my hand at grafting. As my first round of queens I am going to try a swarm box and a queenless colony for cell starters, to see which method I like best. I then plan on transfering them to queen right colonies above queen excluders for finishing. I am going to make 5 frame nucs out of 10 frame brood boxes for mating with separate entrances at both ends. My bigest problem could be cold weather which could keep virgin queens from mating. I live in southwest Minnesota where the weather doesn't like to cooperate so it will be interesting to see how many queens I do get. I have decided to treat my colonies for nosema before I start just to be sure the bees are stressed from one less disease, although they my not need it after 3 different pollinations. So lets get a thread going on queen rearing. Elroy Aaron Morris wrote: > I don't know of a queen specific discussion group on the list. I'm > puzzled why you just don't start a discussion of queen rearing right > here?!? > > Aaron Morris