Hi Allen & all

> > http://www.rirdc.gov.au/reports/HBE/03-049.pdf
>
> I'm glad to have this study brought to my attention.  The conclusions are
> interesting, but some things are not clear to me.  Maybe I did not read it
> well enough.  (I always have problems scrolling around in PDFs).

I too, am surprised that so many documents are made hard to read in this
manner... But the content is magnificent.

> and after 21 days, some might well be culled by the
> beekeeper, due to bad patterns.
>
> It was not obvious to me if this effect was taken into account, or if this
> pre-culling between 7 and 28 days -- assuming it took place, as it always
> does in the real world -

The way I read this, no intervention took place.

I have a great deal more re-reading of this document to do and may seek to
publish some of it in a more conventional and 'easy to read' webpage format,
but that will have to wait as I have stacks of stuff on drone fertility and
semen viability to sort out first.


Best Regards & 73s, Dave Cushman... G8MZY
Beekeeping and Bee Breeding Website
http://website.lineone.net/~dave.cushman

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