Hello all beekeepers out there. Can someone tell me what a "chinese grafting tool" looks like? I use the Jenter system myself, but one of my develpment projects for next summer is to learn how to graft queens cells "for real". I have this plastic grafting needle that i bought a few years back and i tried it this summer, but it seemed to be to clumsy to get the job properly done. I heard of someone who grafts very successfully with a fine watercolor pen. Any experiences with that? Another question for those of you who raise your own queens: do you put cell protectors on the queen cells just after they've been capped? I have been doing this, and i suspect it's the root of my very low success rate. I get plenty of cells, but most of them contain dead and not fully developed queens. Could it be that the nursing bees are unable to keep a cell inside a protector warm enough? /Mats Andersson, Stockholm Sweden