I keep thinking that the focus needs to be not on high quality queens so much as high quality bee colonies
> Prokopovich once told his pupils: "By their nature some bees are more diligent and others less." A diligent colony sends its foragers afield earlier in the spring and discontinues field work later in autumn than others. In the morning its bees are the first to leave the hive and come home later in the evening. The bees of such a colony fly noticeably farther than bees from other colonies, and work the flowers more quickly. -- KHALIFMAN, 1953
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