> But when a queen is introduced to another colony, only genetic traits will be passed on.
Beyond a presumably larger population to select from, I do wonder whether this is one of the other key advantages of natural selection - there may be more than a few resistance traits that cannot be reliably reproduced via the grafting needle.
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