This is actually a good way to deal with LW colonies. In an abstract in the back of ABJ a few years ago, it was shown that about 75% of the time a LW colony will accept a queen cell and get the queen mated. I see this every year in my mating nucs....laying worker colonies accepting the cell. >A few weeks ago was helping some one with their hive and there was a >fairly mature swarm cell they wanted to squish so I took it, put it >in a cell protector and stuck it in the laying worker hive. They >accepted it and now have a laying queen. >Karen Kimball *********************************************** The BEE-L mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html Guidelines for posting to BEE-L can be found at: http://honeybeeworld.com/bee-l/guidelines.htm