Hi Peter

> I put a Jenter box in a colony in the evening and by next morning the queen had laid just 2 eggs!

I think your surmise about polishing may be correct or just sod's law, I 
have used Jenter and Cup Kit boxes many times, but never found that 
there was any consistency in the time it took to get them laid up. I 
think some queens get turned off or just lay on the plastic, where the 
workers eat the eggs.

I have known three or four days elapse and zero eggs in the box, by then 
they are so out of step with the rest of the timetable, you have to 
start again from scratch.


Regards & Best 73s, Dave Cushman, G8MZY
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