>>> ...but pretty, color, etc. have little to do with the overall quality of a queen in terms of desirable colony traits.<><><> So how many queen breeders out there have a selection criteria based on how their daughter production queens' colonies produce out in the field and how that colony handles the stresses common to the production arena? How many queen breeders ask for, and receive, feedback from their customers on how the production queens purchased worked in actual field conditions?Mike in LA
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