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Offline Lburou

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Harvesting Royal Jelly
« on: March 30, 2014, 10:54:59 am »
How do you separate the larva?  Or, is it necessary?

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Re: Harvesting Royal Jelly
« Reply #1 on: March 30, 2014, 10:27:14 pm »
I did my first grafts this week and they were extremely dry.  Looking for something to prime the cell with and I have a frame with a dozen uncapped queen cells.  Plan on robbing those cells to use for priming.  Didn't know if the larva would be a problem in the royal jelly.  I guess if there is enough to rob, the larva would be visible and I could take them out......?
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Re: Harvesting Royal Jelly
« Reply #2 on: March 31, 2014, 01:02:43 am »
The larva is laying on top of the royal jelly so scoop her out and then scoop out the jelly. The jelly can be sucked up out of the cells also. 
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Re: Harvesting Royal Jelly
« Reply #3 on: April 01, 2014, 11:58:31 pm »
Thanks Apis  :)

I did what you recommended, but found one or two very small larva after combining the RJ from several cells.  I was overthinking it.  ;)
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