Inspected dead queen hive today

[LazyBkpr]

What Pete said. You have to notch cells with the youngest larvae possible to get good queens.  I EMailed Mel and got permission to link to his vid and his site. The link can be found on this page.

   http://outyard.weebly.com/queens.html

[Jen]

Hey! I saw that today! A very unexpected surprise in our last hived swarm. We were completely out of resources when this swarm came back home, not a very big one either. We put it thru the shaker box and didn't find a queen. Then we put the hive into a medium with brand new frames and foundation, nothing else. We put it out in the yard with the other hives and said "You're on your own, good luck to ya" and low and behold it's full of brood and larvae. And, I did see a patch of very tiny eggs with a bit of royal jelly floating.

Nice! 

[apisbees]

Another advantage of notching is it gives you queens that you know were developed from the youngest larva. Left up to the bees they can raise queens from 2 or 3 day old larva so the queen that develops will be inferior because they have not been feed royal jelly continually through their development.