apidea management and grafting photos

[Jon]

Dan, I concur with both your main points above, redistributing brood to apideas which have lost a queen and swapping places as well.
We have had atrocious weather this year but the queens are flying and mating which has surprised me. I put another 14 cells into apideas earlier this evening and I have 16 more to do tomorrow.
An apidea without brood or a virgin seem to go laying worker in about 3 weeks or less if unattended.