Sunday 1st June 2014
Found and isolated yellow queen in end hive. I used the circles with spikes from both sides, last year the bees eat the queen out from one side withe just one set of spikes. But i think i'll make a proper quennisolation frame for next year, it'll be a lot easier.
Using unfrozen royal jelly and water, put a drop in each cup and loaded 20 tiny larvae from the yellow Q.
Somewhere i read that if you lick the chinese grafting tool between grafts they come out easier. Its true.
Then i put the frame into the second lift of the old red swarm Q, together with one frame of open and one frame of closed (couldn't remember which - its open of course!) I should have put the frame in before hand for it to be accepted, but wasn't organised enough.
We'll see what they make of it.
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