[tennesseeturkey]

I would to go to small cell bees i have 6 hives that are large. Can you put a small cell queen in a large cell? :scratch:

 

[Duncan151]

You can, but then you would get large cell bees. Depends on what you want to do long term with those bees vs buying a small cell queen.

 

[Michael Bush]

>Can you put a small cell queen in a large cell?

I'm not sure I understand why you want to do that, but yes and as Duncan says, you'll get large cell bees. You can also put a "large cell" queen on small cell, although I'm not sure there really is such a thing as "large cell" and "small cell" queens. Bees make queen cells quite oversized so I don't think the size of the worker cells has any effect on the size of the queens...

 

[Oldtimer]

The queens are not large cell or small cell, they are all the same. I have raised queens in large cell hives and small cell hives and the queens are the same, they can lay eggs in small cells or large cells.

Not sure I quite understand your question, but putting a particular queen in a large cell hive will not make it small cell you have to have small cell comb.

EDIT - Started writing before your post appeared Michael, sorry have covered some of the same ground.

 

[Michael Bush]

>Started writing before your post appeared Michael, sorry have covered some of the same ground.

It happens to me all the time.

 

[Rader Sidetrack]

Once in a while we get a sort of a 'trifecta'.

See the timestamps for posts #3, #4 and #5 here:
http://www.beesource.com/forums/showthread.php?294542-What-happened-to-Lauri