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Re: raising queens
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James Kilty <[log in to unmask]>
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Informed Discussion of Beekeeping Issues and Bee Biology <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 18 Feb 2004 21:37:23 +0000
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In message <000001c3ed7b$e27b5640$43bc59d8@BusyBeeAcres>, Bob Harrison
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>All of mated  queens I raised from the above II
>breeder queen will produce drones  100% pure to the source stock because the
>drones are haploid and no genetic crossing has taken place.
They get half the mother's genes and half the fathers'. You don't know
which half. What you can say, is that you won't lose the genes, you have
only diluted them.
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James Kilty

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