putting new V queens in apideas

[RDMW]

Ah that's interesting. I transferred them at the egg stage. Was that too early? Sorry to be stupid but how do I know when they are "accepted"


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[The Drone Ranger]

Ah that's interesting. I transferred them at the egg stage. Was that too early? Sorry to be stupid but how do I know when they are "accepted"


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too early RDMW you have to wait till the eggs have hatched
looking in the back of the cassette you pick the ones with the most royal jelly
use the white middle section of the cupkit system to pick up the brown cups
That is easier than using fingers

When you see eggs just take the white plug out of the front of the cassette
it takes the queen a little while but she will find the way out
Then wait till the eggs hatch before you go to the next stage of putting them on the cell bar
One day later check the cell bar if there is a ring of wax round the cell cup AND the larva is still there with a good supply of royal jelly that means the bees are trying to raise a queen ie the larva has been accepted
any empty ones replace them with other larva from the cassette as per previous post

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[Blackbrood]

although this is an oldish thread

a nice German video here on youtube. Althought it is all in German, these beekeepers are clearly very organised and the relevant bit to this thread is at about 22minutes 45seconds in. Where they are setting up apideas and running virgins in to them, dunked in honey. You can also make out that the virgins already have disks stuck to their backs

[Adam]

I am convinced that on the odd occasion I have had a virgin come back and enter the wrong hive - although without a disk I could not be sure. I have some numbered disc somewhere but I have never used them.