Medhat wrote:

>> These results suggest that emergency queens are not the best
>quality based on the worker selection of older larvae to raise those
>queens under emergency situation.

And rather than create an emergency situation, I'd be very interested in a clever way to induce supercedure since then the 'failing' queen would lay eggs into queen cups and the larva age would be 'best'?

I suppose inducing swarm cells would produce queens of the supercedure quality - or is this not the case?

Waldemar
Long Island, NY

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