>"How does the organic status change when the hive has a clipped wing queen 
>as
>opposed to the hive which is headed by a queen without wings clipped?"

Seems illogical to me.

Here another one to ponder.  Here in Australia, if an organic beekeeper buys 
a queen from a non organic queen bee breeder and introduces it into an 
organic hive, then the first extraction from that hive after the 
introduction is not organic.  However, after that it is.  Wonder what 
impurities the queen brought with her and introduced into the honey to make 
that first extraction not organic?

Trevor Weatherhead
AUSTRALIA
Have a look at www.apimondia2007.com 

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