Aaron said:

> I have also experienced cases when the queens were
> attempted to be introduced to splits that already
> had queens...
> With the wooden cages you know if/when this happens
> because you'll find the new queen dead in the wooden
> cage.  I have seen at least three times where the new
> queen was alive and well in the JZ/BZ cage where I am
> sure she'd have been dead in the wooden cage.

What extra protection does the plastic cage afford the
queen over the wood cage?  Given equal amounts of candy
to chew through, I would have guessed that the non-queenless
workers would be pulling the new queen limb-from-limb in the
same amount of time regardless of cage type.

                jim

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