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Re: clipping of queens
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T & M Weatherhead <[log in to unmask]>
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Informed Discussion of Beekeeping Issues and Bee Biology <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 11 Feb 2004 20:15:25 +1000
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> An old beekeeper in our club says that bees will kill a clipped queen.
They
> consider her damaged and will raise a supercedure queen. Comments???

I would not believe this as we clip all our breeder queens and they last for
a long time.  We do not have problems with them being "superceded".

Probably just a story that cannot be justified just in the same way that if
you clip a queen its progeny cannot produce organic honey.  Not sure how the
clipping affects the properties of the honey.

Trevor Weatherhead
AUSTRALIA

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