a snip from Randy Oliver...
> >I have never heard anyone suggest such a manipulation would increase a
> queens egg laying


Check Farrar's and Lloyd Harris's theses--both comment on the effect.

my question....
science normally requires a mechanism in place to explain the net effect.  Do you have any idea what that might be?  It does counter intuitive to me.

just another uninformed non treatment beekeeper....

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