>>>  ....researchers realized that the treated colonies had produced 85% fewer queen bees than the untreated groups.
>>>  Were they using honeybees or some other species?

If my memory serves me correct, I think the above mentioned queen production stats were in reference to bumble bee queen production.

Mike in LA

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