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Re: Is winter queen loss survivable?
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> Subject: [BEE-L] Is winter queen loss survivable?


>here's where it gets interesting
> to me, I observed many (at least a dozen) supersedure cells started
> but not finished - they were kind of round, but not yet elongated.

Far from anybody in Australia to comment on wintering.  These sound more
like the 'cell butts' that are there more or less all the time. Queenless,
as opposed to supersedure or swarm cells, are started from worker cells and
on careful examination this can be seen.

Geoff Manning

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