Queen cell protector CNE8

Name: Queen cell protector CNE8
Brand: Nicot
SKU: CNE8/100
Price: 0.25 EUR
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Clear NICOT® tube that shields the queen cell along its sides — where it gets attacked — until she emerges. It takes the cup with the queen cell and slides between two frames of a queenless colony or mating nuc. The non-porous plastic lets you see the cell without opening. Holder and cup not included.

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Details of Queen cell protector CNE8

Clear tube that shields the queen cell along its sides until she emerges, for introduction into a queenless colony or a mating nuc.

Queen cells almost always get attacked from the side. This tube covers those sides and still lets you see the cell without opening anything, because the plastic is clear and non-porous.

01 · HOW IT IS USED

The cell goes in the tube, and the tube between two frames

With the sealed queen cell in its CNE3 cup on the CNE2 holder, set the holder on top of the tube and, with a pin, push the cup through the hole in the back of the holder so that cup and queen cell drop into the tube. Then push the tube's tab into the comb, between two frames of a queenless colony or a mating nuc. From there the work is watching: the clear plastic lets you follow the state of the cell without pulling the frame every other day.

02 · QUEEN REPLACEMENT

It lets you try without removing the old queen first

Its other use is replacement in a single operation: introducing the protected cell without taking the old queen out first, and letting the colony decide. For that method the manufacturer quotes a success rate of around 50 % with one-year-old queens, and it depends heavily on the season — take it as an order of magnitude, not a guarantee. What it does remove is the risk of ending up with neither a queen nor a cell.

03 · BEFORE YOU BUY

✓ FITS	NICOT® CNE3 cell cup (the CNE2 holder is only used to pass the cup into the tube; the tube does not fit onto it).
⚠ NOT INCLUDED	The holder, the cup or the cell. The tube protects, but on its own it does not hold the cell.

SPECIFICATIONS

Function	Shielding the sides of the queen cell until emergence
Material	Clear, non-porous food-grade plastic
Compatibility	NICOT® CNE3 cell cup (the CNE2 holder is only used to pass the cup into the tube; the tube does not fit onto it)
Placement	Between two frames of a queenless colony or mating nuc
Cleaning	Non-porous: scrape and wash without residue clinging