Anyone who has been to the FIBKA course at Gormanston would have had the
opportunity of seeing how a drone congregation area is located by using
artificial queen pheromone to attract drone.

 The effect can be startling with scores of drones attempting to get to the
 'queen'. The pheromone must be airborne in this case.

 Ruary
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>>I admit ignorance of whether queen pheremone is transmitted by
>> footprint, but I KNOW that some queen pheremone is airborne!  I
>> regularly create an artificial swarm by caging a queen with 5-10
>> pounds of bees, keeping them together overnight, and then hanging the
>> queen cage in a shrub 50-100 feet upwind of the bees.

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