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> 5. Your call as to whether queen supercedure is good in the middle of the
> main honey flow. To hear some on this list, the replacement queen must
be
> inherently inferior since she developed and mated on her own.
Personally,
> I don't like the unplanned, several week shutdown of brood rearing. But,
> I'm not convinced that the bees can't do as good a job as a queen
grafter.
This is what I was wondering about.
I gather that the original queen goes missing or fails completely, then?
Or, why the interruption. I was thinking supercedure can happen while a
queen is continuing to lay, thus my question.
allen
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