Originally Posted by
busybeephilip
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
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