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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Alastair" data-source="post: 13405" data-attributes="member: 13">Here is the final results for this. I had 21 queenless nucs so grafted cells, these were hatched in a bank and given a Co2 treatment 5 days later then 7 of them were inseminated the next day cos there was only enough semen to do 7 of them. But rather than waste the other virgins they were introduced to nucs even though it was May, on the off chance they might find some drones.Of the seven inseminated queens 4 were direct introduced to nucs and the bees killed them they were all dead the next day. The other 3 were introduced in a cage with candy and they were all accepted and now laying eggs. All the virgins failed except one, which is laying fertilized eggs. Rather amazing since it is months after normal mating time, plus we had a cold snap all the way through the mating time.Herewith some photos -This is one of the artificially inseminated queens with her brood. The workers around her are old, they were queenless for more than a month before she was given to them.[ATTACH=full]1759[/ATTACH]This is one of the virgins that went drone layer, rather sad, she has been pinched.[ATTACH=full]1760[/ATTACH]This is the virgin that somehow found at least one mate! As can be seen, proper worker brood. I do not know how well mated or how long she will last, but I will keep her and find out. If she is still going next spring she can go into a production hive.[ATTACH=full]1761[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

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