> 5. Your call as to whether queen supercedure is good in the middle of the
> main honey flow.  To hear some on this list, the replacement queen must
be
> inherently inferior since she developed and mated on her own.
Personally,
> I don't like the unplanned, several week shutdown of brood rearing.  But,
> I'm not convinced that the bees can't do as good a job as a queen
grafter.

This is what I was wondering about.

I gather that the original queen goes missing or fails completely, then?

Or, why the interruption.  I was thinking supercedure can happen while a
queen is continuing to lay, thus my question.

allen