>>producing queens from larvae and leaving the choices of which age
larvae to the bees who inherently know better than I what they prefer
to do on their own.
I enjoyed reading Jay Smith's book. I have also noticed that swarm
bees typically build up a a base of wax underneath to have a queen
cup bottom at the top of the cells.
Keith, once your bees have raised the first batch of queens, do you
reuse the queen cups by *making* the queen lay in them or do you
always start out with a new comb strip with eggs?
Waldemar
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