Charlie, I was thinking along the same lines only not so much due to hypoxia but with cleaning flights. There have been a few references that bees in winter storage have no brood, and I presume no indoor flight time. I read one study that linked flight to both JH change and mandibular gland stimulation. So maybe just a simple cleansing flight stimulates a little patch of brood.
Bill Hesbach
Northeast USA
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