Grafting Queens ...

Yesterday, I had a chance to watch Gordon and his son Mike Vernon grafting queens.  I don't think I will be ready to roll on raising queens this year ... I have Successful Queen Rearing ... Short Course by Dr Marla Spivak and Gary Reuter but, I believe it will be a "next year" project.  The Vernon's have a great system and it was fun to watch them work through setting up a frame using a grafting tool to transfer larva to queen cups (36 per frame).  Gordon says it takes 400 nurse bees to finish one queen cell.

Picts of Mike working below ...