In message <[log in to unmask]>, Dee 
Lusby <[log in to unmask]> writes
>True for orderly replacement of the mother. But having a
>queen try to flyout crippled, who cannot forfill her
>destiny if left allowed is somehow wrong. Do we cripple
>other animals so they cannot continue their life cycle?

OK, but this is an opinion, side-stepping the actual point, and not 
related to the original assertion in which use of the term supercedure 
was synonymous with swarming.

And the answer to your question is a definite YES, humans have done that 
to animals, and themselves, for many centuries.

A clipped queen cannot continue her lifecycle? Apart from restraining a 
prized asset from flying heaven knows where, often to a place it will be 
a nuisance for those of us not fortunate/unfortunate enough to live in a 
virtually endless wilderness, pray tell how?
-- 
Murray McGregor

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