From: "huestis" <buzzybee@capital.net>
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 07:55:44 -0700
To: <BiologicalBeekeeping@yahoogroups.com>
Subject: Re: Dadant ready for orders

Joel,

If you have 1 queen cell to 100. Your colony is considered queen right by
the bees. Best to let them at it than to add costly queens as you have just
found out. The fact that the cell was open should indicate there was a
virgin. Next time shut up the colony and come back later. I suspect you
missed the queen as she was mating or possiblly was still small(unmated).
Here's a secret! Your bees can raise just as good of queens as the big
breeders. Remember there the ones trying to sell some thing. There claims
are great but bees are bees!(once in awhile some do have really awesome
stock, however). Learn to raise them, its easy as they do all the hard
parts.

> Whatever the case, she is laying lotsa eggs, and that works for me. I

See, just like I said a good queen.

Clay