The queen breeder in a Midwestern agricultural setting that I hoped might provide me ground truthing as to whether their queens reared with neonic exposure suffered from infertility was unable to say yes or no.

There is a complete list of what we call the IQI  or Illinois queen initive,  same with Ohio,  Contacts at Purdue should be able to provide you with many,  and there are several of us here with queens we breed.   Do you have a definition?

I can say with certainty that the queens I breed are about the same as the ones we buy,  but not knowing what metric you use its hard to quantify at this point in the season.


Charles

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