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Date: | Fri, 26 Jul 2019 16:27:13 -0400 |
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>For us small breeders, the complication, as I see it, is that eliminating the queen only addresses a part of the problem. It takes time to properly evaluate a queen, especially for hygienic behavior, and in the meantime, she can cast off genes to DCAs and perpetuate less than undesirable traits. I suspect, but don't know, that allowing drone rearing during trait evaluation in closed populations is also a problem.
DCA's have lots of drones from feral and other colonies. I think that small outfits do better if they find a good queen supplier and stick with him or her. I'm an experimenter and I get queens from a variety of breeders. Got some real duds this summer.
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