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I signed off with:
>> no matter what is written, no matter how carefully, somebody's
>> going to challenge it.
And Trevoro Weatherhead responded:
> Well, Aaron, I won't let you down.
> ... My aim is less than 24 hours old. How do I do this? By putting
> in combs and taking them out after 4 days....
Yes I touched on this in "confining the queen" although I didn't cover
all the bases by mentioning empty frames. Hard to cover all the bases
in 100 lines or less.
> There is work by Prof. Woyke from Poland that shows as the age of the
> larve increases, when you are rearing queens, the number of ovarioles
> decreases. This then in turn means that the queen will not be able to
> lay the same number eggs in a day. This then means less bees and
> therefore less honey gathered.
This is also covered somewhere in the second chapter (I believe, but if
it's wrong I'm sure someone will point that out) of Laidlaw's
_Contemporary_Queen_Rearing_. But the claim of more ovarioles assuring
superior queens was left in doubt.
Trevor wrote:
> Of course, there are many other factors that will affect the quality
> of the queen produced but I can start by selecting the youngest larvae
> possible and therefore getting more ovarioles per queen.
I wrote:
> It is also noteworthy that the sooner a queen rearing beekeeper can
> change the destiny of the developing larva the more likely they are
> to have better results.
You say poTAto and I say poTATo....
> By the way, was there ever a proceedings or papers published from the
> ABF seminar?
Without fear of reprisal I can say surf to:
http://www.airoot.com/beeculture/98mar/98mar4.html
Aaron Morris - thinking I'd better check and double check that URL!
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