On  9 Apr 97 at 16:27, Richard Blohm wrote: Re: Save Our Drones
 
> Yes you can winter over a virgin queen to produce Drones in early spring.
> The book that best describes it is;
 
Questionable. With a virgin queen there would be no production of brood of
any sort, and therefore no replacement of bees from (in our case) Oct to
May.
        I know bees will live for a considerable time whilst not under pressure,
but I doubt if they will live that long. So therefore the hive would be in
decline, and we know what happens then!!
 
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