"Personaly its not my style.  Hardly requeen at all,  probably less 

than 20%

a year by my intentions.  Splits and supercedures aside.  Trying to 

develop

those Tim Ives queens 3-4 years old"



Surely it must be desirable to have workers that live as long as 

possible as they will spend more time foraging.  How can one select for 

longevity in workers except by using long-lived queens. Frequent 

re-queening is short term thinking.  So far I have had only one marked 

queen pass her 4th birthday before departing with a swarm, but 3 year 

olds are frequent.



Chris









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