>>> [log in to unmask] 11/6/03 11:05:15 AM >>>
>It would be very useful for finding queens in research projects. Like
>verifying queen without
>opening hive.

It might verify that you had the chip/tag/antenna in the hive,
but would it verify that the queen was alive?  Could she be
dead on the bottom board and a supercedure queen up there
laying in her place?  How reliable would it be?  (I suppose that
if she died, the disposal bees would probably toss out her
carcass.  Might work.)

Layne Westover, College Station, Texas

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