>It's also amazing how long the workers continue to live in a queenless colony.
Randy: In these colonies, the situation is the same as in late summer/autumn: no brood => no or little use of vitellogenin => long living bees?
Kind regards,
Ghislain De Roeck,
Belgium.
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