Deborah Hewitt wrote > I am finding the new focus on beginners and the level of author experience (articles that begin with "I am entering my second year of beekeeping") to not be useful. I just renewed my subscription, wanting to take a look for myself. The first article I read contained this: > While not all aspects of swarming are completely understood, I remember reading, although I can’t give proper attribution, that one of the triggers for swarm cell production is the queen’s pheromone is too faint. Well, there are a lot of things I remember reading that I can't remember where. Good grief -- look it up! This particular statement isn't even true. Swarming is not cued by faint queen substance; supersedure *might* be. Looks like the bar has been lowered pretty far for qualified writers. PLB *********************************************** 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