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Aleksandar Mihajlovski <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 1 Dec 2005 06:56:43 -0500
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We use that technique You named "bee candling" because it is recommended in
our (Slavic languages) bee literature.
The advice we follow is to take the ripe queen cell gently, not to turn it
around, and to rise it towards the sun (not right on the sun, of course). I
personally have always been able to identify live queen inside when looking
against the sun. Rough look is: how much of queen cell inside space is
occupied by queen pupae. It is first time that I had heard from Bob about
the queen head.

For transfers/transports of queen cells the best is polystyrene used for
packing laboratory test tubes.

Aleksandar Mihajlovski
Macedonian beekeeping journal: "Melitagora"

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