Herve writes:
Without marking or clipping the queens, you have no real
way of determining the acceptance rate.
Reply:
No offense Herve, but when you drop in virgins to hives
marked to change over, you see a defininte color change in
the queens.
Herve continiues:
Last summer we requeened with queen cells, and judging from
the number of marked queens surviving, 85-90% is purely
wishful thinking.
Reply:
Sorry you had that problem. But 85-90% take is normal with
virgin queen drops done right in an "organic environment",
using 3dram bottles.
Respectfully submitted,
Dee A. Lusby
Small Cell Commercial Beekeeper
Moyza, Arizona
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/organicbeekeepers/
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