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Deborah Hewitt wrote

> I am finding the new focus on beginners and the level of author experience (articles that begin with "I am entering my second year of beekeeping") to not be useful.

I just renewed my subscription, wanting to take a look for myself. The first article I read contained this:

> While not all aspects of swarming are completely understood, I remember reading, although I can’t give proper attribution, that one of the triggers for swarm cell production is the queen’s pheromone is too faint.

Well, there are a lot of things I remember reading that I can't remember where. Good grief -- look it up! This particular statement isn't even true. Swarming is not cued by faint queen substance; supersedure *might* be. Looks like the bar has been lowered pretty far for qualified writers.

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