>When big guys split to sell nucs to newbees, they are setting them up for
failure because they are passing their old queen on to the new beekeeper

Only an unscrupulous beekeeper would do that, unless the buyer
intentionally asked for a queen in her second year.  Nucs in Calif are
generally sold with newly-mated queens.
-- 
Randy Oliver
Grass Valley, CA
www.ScientificBeekeeping.com

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