Dee asks:

> How can queens lay full out in mid-summer and slow grow? If not a lack of
> brood, then why not bulding up?


Any factor that causes the adult bees to age rapidly--see my graphs in Old
Bees, Cold Bees.  As you say, varroa and nosema can cause this, but also
viruses.

Randy Oliver

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