Hi  all

Bob said...

> If you move eggs up also and put the old brood nest a full deep above the
> excluder many times queen cells are indeed made.
>
> More so if you do not regularly replace your queens and have got old
queens
> with low pheromone levels.

The whole business of regularly replacing queens is outside of my
experiance.

I reckon to breed new queens on the basis of improving the quality of stock,
not because the old ones are 'worn out', but British queens have a longer
working life than it seems is usual in US.

It seems to me that the high level of queen cell building that Bob is
expecting, would come from the bees recognising some deficiency in the
queens... Is this deficiency part of a wearing out process or was it present
when the queen was new?


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