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At 01:04 AM 8/28/02 -0400, Dick wrote:
>An interesting quote from Walter T. Kelley's book: "How to Keep Bees and
>Sell Honey" 13th ed. page 108:
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>"It has been your author's experience that painted queens are superceded
>much quicker than unpainted queens but many beekeepers do paint their
>queens because they are so much easier to find."
More likely is that unmarked queens are superceded without the beekeepers
knowledge.
I would recommend marking.
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