CHAPTER IX 

 Care of Finished Cells. 



About four days after the prepared cell cups are given 

 to the bees, the finished cells will be sealed, Figure 30. If the 

 weather is warm they may be placed in cages and transferred 

 to other colonies for safe keeping, until time for the young 

 queens to emerge. However, in cool weather, there is danger 

 that the young queens will be chilled and injured, if the cells 

 are placed in cages so that the nurses can no longer warm them 

 by direct contact. Most breeders leave the cells to the care 

 of the bees until the evening of the ninth day. The cells are 

 then caged or given directly to the nuclei, where they are to be 



Fig. 30. Finished cells by the Doolittle method, 



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