Hi Robert,

>     Perhaps,but if you keep doing this aren't you  selecting for
swarminess?
>

Not necessarily, You can induce swarming by a couple of ways. Also swarming
is a natural occurrence of colonies that are doing extremely well and not a
bad thing inherently in my opinion, you just have to manage the impulse. Yes
Robert, I would much rather colonies supersede than swarm to answer your
next question and would select for this when found and to reproduce the most
well developed and numbers of queens you could induce swarming impulse to
achieve these numbers from such a strain instead of just relying on the few
cells supersedure gives..

 . ..   Keith Malone, Chugiak, Alaska USA, http://www.cer.org/,
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