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Hi All
I questioned whether bigger is better, in the case of honeybee queens. There is support for this being so.
> Some field studies have found that high-quality queens produced from newly hatched larvae and weighing more than 200 mg at adult emergence headed significantly larger colonies than low-quality queens produced from old larvae and weighing less than 180 mg at emergence. Queens weighing over 200 mg headed colonies with higher brood populations, more stored pollen, and population growth (De Souza et al. 2013; Rangel et al. 2013).
Daiana, A., Huang, M. H., & Tarpy, D. R. (2019). Experimental improvement of honey bee (Apis mellifera) queen quality through nutritional and hormonal supplementation. Apidologie, 50(1), 14-27.
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