> or by inoculating colonies with "bee juice."
 
I am curious about the extent of the risk of dead bees in a colony.  Randy has shown (and others have anecdotally confirmed) that squishing bees is bad for the colony well beyond the loss of the bees squished.
 
More specifically, I am curious whether that effect also applies to the frozen drone brood put back in a colony when the beekeeper uses drone culling to control varroa.  Do dead drones function as "bee juice" in this context?

Mike Rossander

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