Mike,
>>Seondly, they need to have feedback of this sort so that they know
that they are having problems with their queen mating process.
I'd think for an outfit that runs thousands of colonies, they have
come across the same behavior many times... I don't think I'd want
replacement queens, free or otherwise, from the same source.
>>they will know that they are going to have to change their
queen mating procedures.
You have little control over open mating in Africanized territory.
Drone colonies would have to come from a non-Africanized area and the
feral Africans would still have a mating advantage based on the
current knowledge. AI would be way too expensive. The semen source
would have to be outside of the Africanized territory as well.
Waldemar
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