Bob wrote:

>>The growers are interested in importing queenless packages for pollination and using a queen pheromone to hold the colony together until end of pollination.

I never used queen pheromone.  Would the pheromone be enough to stop the onset of laying workers?  Not an issue to the almond grower (although my perception is colonies with laying workers forage/pollinate less) but any beepkeeper trying to utilize these bees subsequently might have to deal with the laying workers before installing queens.

Waldemar
Long Island, NY

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