>Maybe with those Louisiana bees, but not here... Could it be that most commercially reared queens come from the south where they don't have much of a winter to help with selection?
Agreed. My understanding is that they attmpted to get a representative sample of the queens on the market and not just in LA. I'll ask further.
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