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Re: Broodless period & varroa
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T & M Weatherhead <[log in to unmask]>
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Informed Discussion of Beekeeping Issues and Bee Biology <[log in to unmask]>
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Sun, 14 Sep 2003 17:37:09 +1000
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>" Probably they will begin rearing new queens, but that doesn't necessarily
> mean they will swarm on the first queen.

As it is the end of the season, I would have thought that the hive would not
be in a mood to want to swarm.  I would have thought that they would have
just stayed with the one virgin who got out first and knocked over the other
cells.

Trevor Weatherhead
AUSTRALIA

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