>
> >Are our commercial queen breeders concentrating on the production of
> queens that are generally healthy and productive, or are they actively
> seeking to incorporate desired characteristics by providing appropriate
> drones which would saturate their drone congregation areas?


Since queen producers generally requeen their colonies with their own
queens, and since all the genetics in the drones come from the mother, by
default, all drone mother colonies would be producing drones from the
daughters of last season's breeder queens.  So in answer to your second
question, yes.

-- 
Randy Oliver
Grass Valley, CA
www.ScientificBeekeeping.com

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