> How long can a virgin queen be kept from mating and still become a viable
mated queen?

Not sure what academia says or the actual concensus of the new science but
I use ...
after day of emergence and weeks of 7 days :
- one week for sexual maduration
- one week to mate
- one week to demostrate egg laying

total 21 days ...

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