What is everyone's thought on this?
 
 
I suspect that the bees know what is the best egg to produce a queen from;  
better than the beekeeper does.  When we graft, we take "all"  the larvae 
from the "best" colony.   Some are better larvae than  others.  Here again, I 
believe the bees know what is better than the  beekeeper.  I wonder if we 
should use the swarm cells from less swarmy  colonies.  The colonies that are 
going to swarm anyway.  Yes, I know  the traditional thought and experience 
is using swarm cells will  result in higher swarming colonies, but swarming 
is the natural way  colonies reproduce.  There must be a limit to the 
swarming or the bees  would not survive.  When we take all the "best" larvae from 
the same or a  few colonies, seems to me we are losing some diversity. 
 
Dave M.
 
 

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