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22 14 Sunday 5/20
23 15 Monday 5/21
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29 21 Sunday 5/27
30 22 Monday 5/28
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12 Make up cell starter colony. Step 1 Begin Here

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Graft the day-old larva into cell cups, and insert it
into a queenless cell starter colony. Step 2 (Grafting Day)
14 Transfer grafting frame to cell finisher. Step 3
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16 feeding royal jelly? Yes, Refill feeder and close hive
…………………….No, Re-graft
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18 Queen cells are capped
19 SENSITIVE DEVELOPMENT STAGE
20 Do not move cells and be very
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22 Make up queenless mating nucs Step 5
23 Transfer queen cells to queenless mating nucs Step 6
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39 31 Wednesday 6/6
40 32 Thursday 6/7
41 33 Friday 6/8
42 34 Saturday 6/9
43 35 Sunday 6/10
44 36 Monday 6/11
45 37 Tuesday 6/12
46 38 Wednesday 6/13
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10 2 Thursday 6/28
11 3 Friday 6/29
12 4 Saturday 6/30

13 5 Sunday 7/1

14 6 Monday 7/2
15 7 Tuesday 7/3

16 8 Wednesday 7/4

17 9 Thursday 7/5
18 10 Friday 7/6
19 11 Saturday 7/7
20 12 Sunday 7/8
21 13 Monday 7/9
22 14 Tuesday 7/10
23 15 Wednesday 7/11
24 16 Thursday 7/12
25 17 Friday 7/13
26 18 Saturday 7/14
27 19 Sunday 7/15
28 20 Monday 7/16
29 21 Tuesday 7/17
30 22 Wednesday 7/18
31 23 Thursday 7/19
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9 Mother queen lays eggs.
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12 Make up cell starter colony. Step 1 Begin Here

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Graft the day-old larva into cell cups, and insert it
into a queenless cell starter colony. Step 2 (Grafting Day)
14 Transfer grafting frame to cell finisher. Step 3
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CHECK GRAFTS: are bees drawing out cells and Step 4
16 feeding royal jelly? Yes, Refill feeder and close hive
…………………….No, Re-graft
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18 Queen cells are capped
19 SENSITIVE DEVELOPMENT STAGE
20 Do not move cells and be very
21 gentle when in the the hive
22 Make up queenless mating nucs Step 5
23 Transfer queen cells to queenless mating nucs Step 6
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40 32 Saturday 7/28
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42 34 Monday 7/30
43 35 Tuesday 7/31
44 36 Wednesday 8/1
45 37 Thursday 8/2
46 38 Friday 8/3
47 39 Saturday 8/4
48 40 Sunday 8/5
49 41 Monday 8/6
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47 Larvae found? If so the queen is ready
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Queens mating flights can vary depending on weather conditions. Lower or higher temperatures for
ample will slow down or speed up process.
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o pay attention55
to upcoming weather and plan backwards from there to graft.
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