These are the best cells I have seen all year, large and very pitted.
Only 14/22 were started but these will produce some great queens, due to hatch on Friday.
I only set up the colony for queen rearing sunday week ago but it looks like a good one.
The bees in the cell raising colony are pretty much Amm as the colony is headed by a queen which hatched from a supersedure cell produced in one of my colonies with Galtee genetics. The cells are from the galtee daughter I have been taking most of my grafts from.


I put them in roller cages today and will move them to apideas on Thursday.
graft frame with good cells.jpg two good cells.jpg pitting on cell.jpg

The pitting is a characteristic often associated with supersedure cells and I find that a very good queen often emerges from a cell like this