> So would that be called "queen failure," or "failure of a colony to replace a failing queen"?
I guess a lot depends on how closely the colonies are observed. Most will find the situation too late to know what actually happened. At my home yard, I discovered several queens that had failed, but were still in the hive. At an outyard, all I saw was the failed colony, the queen had disappeared by then. In no cases was supersedure attempted, so far as I could tell. The first two were queens from the prior year; the was a queen from a 2020 package. I know this is a small sample but the failure rate is 21%.
PLB
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