>
> >The main difference of this study and my own operations at the time was
> in the queens caught at 14 days.   In this trail the queens were caught at
> 14 days whether they were laying or not.  Certainly not my practice at the
> time.


Nor of myself or of any other queen producer that I know of--it would make
no sense to cage a queen that hadn't yet started laying.  It is a great
frustration to me to read well-intentioned studies that involved a great
deal of work, but which were critically flawed in design, or lacking
important details in the Materials & Methods (as in this one, which didn't
mention the mating weather or whether the queens were laying at their time
of caging).

I read a great many research proposals from scientists applying for
funding, but must (at least initially) reject the majority for lack of
paying attention to important details.

-- 
Randy Oliver
Grass Valley, CA
www.ScientificBeekeeping.com

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