> 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 *********************************************** The BEE-L mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html