Hi Charlie & All,

>My opinion on supersedure queens is as such, in a queen loss the bees
>select lava of varying ages some too old to be a good queen over 3 days
>old this queen emerges first then cuts all the good queens leaving a
>inferior queen to head the hive.

The type Queen you are referring to here is an emergency Queen not a
supersedure or swarm Queen. Although what you state may be true in the case
of colony needing to replace a lost Queen if a Beekeeper forces a colony to
develop emergency Queens correctly quality Queens can be produced. Jay Smith
author of "Better Queens" describes an excellent method for producing
quality queens from emergency impulse. There are exceptions to rules. What
you propose is the bees raising the Queen but a beekeeper can raise
emergency Queens that are just as superior as any commercial breeder. A
beekeeper can cut the runt Queen off at the pass by simply entering the hive
at day five of Queen development and cutting all capped Queen cells out
leaving only uncapped cells.

. . ..   Keith Malone, Chugiak, Alaska USA, http://www.cer.org/,
c(((([ Caucasian Bee Keeper, http://takeoff.to/alaskahoney/,
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ApiarianBreedersGuild/

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