On 15 Apr 99, at 20:37, Tom Elliott wrote:

> I would add that it does stand to reason that any queen, even a poor one
> will serve in an emergency.  All it would take would be one good egg to
> produce a new supercedure cell and queen.
>

I think you're right Tom. It seems to me that whenever I've left an
emergency queen it's not long before the bees replace her. But
unfortunately if the emergency queen was agressive then the superscedure
queen does not improve, whereas grafted queens from the original mother
are almost a carbon copy.


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