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Subject:	Re: drone egg pattern/queen issue?
From:	Cam Bishop <[log in to unmask]>
Reply To:	Informed Discussion of Beekeeping Issues and Bee Biology <[log in to unmask]>
Date:	Tue, 5 Sep 2017 14:53:59 -0400
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> It may be more accurate to call them "usurpation swarms"--in which the old queen and a group of workers usurps an established colony already prepared for winter.  This would be highly adaptive genetically, and is a trait exhibited by ancestral Apis mellifera, as well as documented by Dr Wyatt Mangum, and observed by me and others in non-Africanized bees.  it would also explain the spike in swarming long documented in September.

I have always attributed these swarms to varroa infestation

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