> hello to all the participants of the list. perhaps you shipment the
> address web of an Australian search on the bees and the performance
> and Queens problems introduction of the same ones we begin to
> understand the reason of the ugly performances and the strong
> substitution of the Queens.
> http://www.rirdc.gov.au/reports/HBE/03-049.pdf

I'm glad to have this study brought to my attention.  The conclusions are
interesting, but some things are not clear to me.  Maybe I did not read it
well enough.  (I always have problems scrolling around in PDFs).

Here's a question: After a queen hatches in a nuc, and as time passes, a few
queens either disappear or prove to have bad patterns.  Therefore the
percentage of queens that would be be present in the nucs normally declines
between 7 & 28 days, and after 21 days, some might well be culled by the
beekeeper, due to bad patterns.

It was not obvious to me if this effect was taken into account, or if this
pre-culling between 7 and 28 days -- assuming it took place, as it always
does in the real world -- perhaps contributed to the better performance of
queens that were 28 days old at introduction.

allen
http://www.honeybeeworld.com

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