How NICE you are to mention me! ALL should know that word "anthropomorphic."

Bees can live very comfortably, AND A LOT LONGER, when kept at LOW
temperatures,
like 45°-50° and in the DARK, just like a November day.  Given 1-2 small
drops of
water each day, the attendants will dissolve a bit of cage candy and FEED the
queen.
After several days, and it stops raining and gets warm, like 70°, install that
cage in your split or nuc, and all will be fine.

After all, some BANKED queens are kept for 30 days before being released to
you.
I HATE banked queens; so when I about to requeen every late August or Sept.
1st,
I order those queens in late May or early June, AND PAY IN FULL FOR THEM, and
state VERY STRONGLY: NO BANKED QUEENS or I will find  another queen supplier.
 I get
WONDERFUL, EXTREMELY WELL MATED QUEENS, and DELIVERED ON THE EXACT DAY I
ASKED FOR.

You apparently know that I REQUEEN EVERY COLONY EVERY YEAR, and hence never
have a queen older than 13 months.  Results, STRENGTH of colony in April and
May,
rarely a swarm, because that young queen has so much pheromone to pass
around that inhibits swarming.

As always - SAID TOO MUCH.

George Imirie

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