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Re Allens' comments re the queens piping. Are you sure it is queens? I know
that there is a lot of talk about queen piping but I will let you know what I
have found.
We hear this piping in the cages of queens and escorts when we have them in
the house prior to shipping. However, in the field I have been catching
queens from nucs and held a frame of bees in my hand and heard the same piping
sound. I thought, good, the queen is on this frame as she is piping. After
looking and looking and thinking I had better go and see the eye man, I put
that frame aside and pulled another frame from the hive. There was the queen.
As she had been in the hive whilst I was looking at the frame, what bee made
the piping sound on the frame I was first looking at?
Trevor Weatherhead
AUSTRALIA
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