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Re: Queen eggs bigger than worker eggs?
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Dick > If you crowd your bees to induce swarming the first to swarm will be the one that has the most swarmy genetics.  The second to swarm will have the second most swarmy genetics.  The one that does not swarm has the least swarmy genetics.  For that reason alone I consider all swarm cells to be worthless junk whose only purpose is to get sliced by my hive tool.


Hi Dick - Just wondering about the science behind the above statement.  I'm not sure what swarmy genetics are.   Have these genes been identified?


Bill Hesbach

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