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Subject:	Re: The Life Span and Levels of Oxidative Stress in Foragers Between Feral and Managed Honey Bee Colonies
From:	James Fischer <[log in to unmask]>
Date:	Tue, 23 May 2023 08:59:02 -0400
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A very large colony will NOT have a different demographic structure than a feral one, even after swarms.

Even when "all foragers" or "all house bees" are removed from the hive, the hive quickly recovers and re-stabilizes at about 30% foragers.  See the attached charts taken from the paper above - see figure 5 in "beshers2001.pdf", attached.

There are other studies that dramatically manipulate the colony demographics, and they all recover within a few days with bees stepping up to new tasks, or (far more interesting) reverting to prior tasks that they should be ill-suited for in terms of hormones.

https://doi.org/10.1007/s002650050276

https://doi.org/10.1139/z85-113




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