Cupkit cell cups - head's-up.

[busybeephilip]

Brown cups are going for £5 per 100 on ebay (See Beezkneez post #1) , buzzy bee shop are £4-30 but sold out and £3-50 per order would make 100 costing £7-80 - a tad expensive

Phil

[Little_John]

Hi LJ, hope you managed a bit of sleep.

When I said a cell bar I meant a lath of plain timber in a BS frame where the brown, (or in your case the green) where directly glued with molten wax to the wooden lathe as would have been done with home made wax cups made with a dowel pre plastic cell cup era. As I said the problem comes when you want to cage the completed cells prior to hatching. I did try in some cases putting the tip of the detached cell into the hole a californa cage. That procedure worked for me but the queens were only kept in the cage for around 24hours, any longer and the queen or bees could eat the cell away and release the virgin into the hive - one takes a bit of a gamble!

Actually, thinking a bit more about it I could have glued the brown cups into wooden cell holders (I have somewhere) which might have fitted cupkit roller cages but I was in a hurry at the time.

Phil

Thanks Phil - it makes complete sense to me now. It should have made complete sense to me before, but it seems that I only read every third word ....

Think I'll invest in a thousand of those Chinese cups anyway - a while ago somebody posted the neat idea of gluing cell cups onto a small triangle of metal to 'stab' into the comb - I think that must be worth a go ...

Cheers
LJ

[Jon]

Brown cups are going for £5 per 100 on ebay (See Beezkneez post #1) , buzzy bee shop are £4-30 but sold out and £3-50 per order would make 100 costing £7-80 - a tad expensive

Phil

I got 1000 from Swienty when I ordered Apideas in April. Still plenty left.