Wednesday 11th June Carnica Q's caged.

About 1400 on weds i have a first look at the should be closed carnica Q cells.

Hoping for 7, 9 is a really good result!

The only issue is that the bees have already started to build the cells out and it takes a good 20 minutes to get the cages on because i have to slice away wax to get the cage over the cell. I only hope i haven't damaged them?

Next stop the two cells that had been pulled from my batch of yellow queen larvae which i mistakenly think should be hatched. Wrong! - Friday.

This leads to much research on Q scheduling and a neat Q calendar online, which tells me not to touch the cells for the three days following capping, as they are very sensitive. Oops.

Back to the instructions for the overlarfproject, where it says to cage them as soon as they are capped, because they are less sensitive immediately after capping than the following three days.

This is where i screwed up last year, by moving them too early.