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> In my experience, bees only produce wax when there is a nectar flow on.
> In my experience, when there is a nectar flow on, colonies engage in brood rearing.
But in my experience, colonies also engage in extensive brood rearing at times when not producing any wax.
So, the offered factoid from Maurizio (1950). ("During dearth, if broodrearing ceases, workers transition to the diutinus physiology and live for a long time.") seems to say nothing at all about the specific impact of **wax production** on the "aging" of bees, as the observation is limited only to brood rearing.
So we are no further along than before we read Maurizio.
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