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From: "Keith Malone" <[log in to unmask]>

>Alley's and Smith's methods may be
> crude and grafting is a way to push out hundreds of queens
> quickly but
> perhaps newer methods need developed to produce queens
> from eggs instead of
> from larvae.
>
Although I have not used it, I understand that the Jenter
queen rearing kit should do this.
The queen is confined for 24 hours on a set of plastic queen
cells and quickly lays them up. These cells with 24 hour old
eggs are then transfered to the usual queen-rearing frame
and, with the usual reliance on a bit of luck, quickly drawn
out. If I understand the process correctly, this should
result in correct feeding from the start.

John Burgess

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