A Cupularve consists of:

A plate with 110 cells for the introduction of a foreign queen. The 110 cells will be fitted with 110 artificial cellcups from the back of the cassette (not included). The cage has a queen excluder on the fronto to allow the bees to get to the queen at any time.

fig.1 cassette

Dimensions : 147 mm x 130 mm x 28 mm.

The queen lays her eggs directly in an artificial cell cup. Allows the breeding from larvas not older than 6 to 24 hours.

fig.2 From left: socket, cell cup holder, cell cup, hair roller cage, candy block

Sockets：Fix with nails, side by side, on the frame.

Cell Cup Holder：Is used with the transparent cellcup.

Cell cups： made from P.S. seethrough brown Dimensions : ? outside. 10 mm – ? inside. 9 mm. Can be stuck with wax on the bars for the production of royal jelly.

Hairroller Cage：Opaque - Height 70 mm. With honey reserve in the cap, to feed the young queen. Allows the emerging of the queen directly in the cell cup block, in a breeding hive or in an incubator. Can also be used for the shipping of the queens and their introduction with the candy block

DIRECTION OF USE

* Take a frame with brood and cut a a rectangle hole in the middle of the frame with the same dimensions than the Cupularve.

* Fix Cupularve with 2 woodenscrews in the corresponding holes :

* Put honey in the cells.

* Put it several months in the middle of the brood without the queen excluder

* Feed the hive 4 days before and during the eggs laying.

* Introduce the queen.

* Extraction of the cellcup containing the Larva aged 6 to 24 hours.

* If conditions of breeding are optimised ( Season, Population, Temperature, Race, feeding, Cupularve right in the middle of the brood… ), the queen will lay eggs within 24 hours.

Check that the beeway is minimum 8 mm.

You can also wax the Cupularve in hot wax (maximum 65°C). REMARK deformation temperature starts at 75°C.

You can release the queen automatically after 24 hours with a big honeycandy block situed in the candy reserve on the back of the corpularvae.