I'm trying to model spring build-up in splits to determine -- or at least bracket -- the optimal split size and timing.
Why go through the trouble of a model based on population size? You have determine the population-brood ratio. It might be more work than sticking to the old rule: when there are newly hatched drones in a colony swarming will follow relatively soon. I would split when drones start to be abundant.
gr
Lennard
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