Chinese Grafting Tool

for grafting larvae for queen rearing

   This one is shown about twice life size, it consists of a spring loaded bamboo plunger that slides along a thin tongue of flexible plastic. Modern versions of this tool have injection moulded plastic parts, which may help with cleanliness. To use, the flexible tongue slips easily under a larva and then a press on the plunger will deposit it, and any royal jelly that was picked up, in the cell to be grafted.