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Re: Lies, Damn Lies, & Statistics
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James Fischer <[log in to unmask]>
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Informed Discussion of Beekeeping Issues and Bee Biology <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 6 Mar 2014 22:47:22 -0500
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> I am not really clear whether 
> culling means uniting or just 
> killing them off.

I'm sorry, I combine colonies and install new (fall) queens to head the
combined colonies.  Both queens are culled, as neither lived up to
performance expectations.

But no colonies are killed off.
"Bee-Keeping", by definition, would be the attempt to not kill bees.
Workers are a fungible commodity, for the most part, so there is never a
reason for workers to die.

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