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Re: SMR questions
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Bob Harrison <[log in to unmask]>
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Informed Discussion of Beekeeping Issues and Bee Biology <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 4 Nov 2005 04:41:22 -0600
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>are two possible reasons for this if the bees are SMR from the lab.

>1. the queen was an outcross and not inbred.

>2. The bees you have got are not opening cells and removing pupa as the web
site says.

>Either 1 or 2 above would leave a shotgun pattern.

What I am saying Mike which might not be clear in the first post is that
inbreeding & pulling pupa would leave the shotgun pattern and the above is
why in my opinion you are not seeing the pattern.

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