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Re: weak colony as a result of bad queen
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randy oliver <[log in to unmask]>
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Informed Discussion of Beekeeping Issues and Bee Biology <[log in to unmask]>
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Sun, 12 Feb 2017 17:10:58 -0800
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> >Anyone who has spent a lot of time around mating nucs will tell you the
> same thing. The queen often lays eggs in all the available cells, goes
> around and does the same thing again, and again. Nothing wrong with her,
> she just wants to get on with it.


I see this often with freshly mated queens in small nucs--sometimes a dozen
eggs per cell.  Just means a vigorous queen and not enough workers to
enlarge the broodnest.

--
Randy Oliver
Grass Valley, CA
www.ScientificBeekeeping.com

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