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Subject:
Queen cells and their contents
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Mark McCarter <[log in to unmask]>
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Informed Discussion of Beekeeping Issues and Bee Biology <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 21 Feb 2012 19:43:13 -0500
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> Quite >obviously, the pupae do not eat this, so if it's there when they
stretch out, it's there when they hatch. Why this excess is placed in there
is not known, but nature does a lot of things for which we don't know the
reasons.

Could it be that it is absorbed from the rear end where it would affect
hormones and queen sex organs like a suppository?
   

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