Posted for Trevor: > One simple observation. A queenless colony will more or less cease > Pollen collection, but will still gather nectar. This is not my observation. Queenless colonies usually have the brood chamber packed out with pollen. If they were ceasing pollen collection because they were queenless then there should be none or minimal pollen stored in the brood box. We have frames that are absolutely packed full with pollen in these queenless colonies. Trevor Weatherhead AUSTRALIA *********************************************** The BEE-L mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html Guidelines for posting to BEE-L can be found at: http://honeybeeworld.com/bee-l/guidelines.htm