Just got back from a long business trip out of the country and am playing catch-up.

Nice video and very interesting for my own, selfish reasons, because I JUST had two VSH queens from Glenn delivered yesterday, the same day I returned (gotta love timing via the Internet).  Given the cost of these girls and their resulting daughters, I'd like to ensure optimal acceptance.  My plan was to introduce the queen cells just before hatching and let the new queens introduce themselves, so to speak, but I am open to other options, since I can just let them hatch in the incubator colony in 'hair curler' cages (Nicot system).  When you say that the virgins were introduced, was that done in any special way - smoke, spray of syrup, spray of syrup with EOs, etc?

Thanks,

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Bill
Claremont, NH
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