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> You raise some interesting questions. It would be nice to survey
> more Australian beekeepers about on this.
At the risk of being accused of being biased as I am a queen bee breeder, I
can assure you that under Australian conditions, particularly those in
Queensland, there are a lot of very successful commercial honey producers
who have based their operations on annual requeening.
From my own experience, I keep about 5 of the best producers from one year
for use in my breeding program. I know this because I have a record of the
number of supers that come off hives because of my barrier system. It
happens that those queens that produce the most honey for the season are "
always" well behind in production for the next season when I compare them to
hives that have been requeened in the previous autumn. These kept queens
are now just past 17 months of age whereas the requeened hives are headed by
queens that are 5 months old.
Trevor Weatherhead
AUSTRALIA
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