> > >How long can a virgin queen be kept from mating and still become a
> viable mated queen?
> >
>
> About three weeks. But a queen mated that late may lay well at first, but
> then later be superseded.
We also find that there is some variability as to how good they are, a few
also may never mate and of course become drone layers.
Geoff Manning
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