> 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 We do not have problems with them being "superceded".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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