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? my question is are there two different types of queens?
Brother Adam on this topic
I know that the very best queens can be reared only direct from the
egg, but here the ideal must give way to practical considerations, at any
rate where the rearing is done on a large scale. The smallest number
of queen cells reared in a batch is 200, so grafting is unavoidable ; if we
tried to use eggs we should never obtain the necessary number of the
same age. We avoid the chief difficulty in grafting larvae by using
only those which are 12 hours old or less. It is true that the acceptance
of these very small larvae is not so high as of those up to two days old,
but this is a secondary consideration.
Brother Adam (1954) Bee Breeding, Bee World, 35:3, 44-49, DOI:
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