> Secondly I am not certain the distribution of 
> queen maximum age has ever been a normal 
> distribution (ie a bell shaped curve)

ET! Your experienced views will add much to the sometimes dry conversations
here.

What I was graphing was the "career length" of all queens in the operation,
and with a large enough dataset, all things tend to come in "normal
distributions". Hence the name!  :)

But regardless of the graphing, I, like Jeff Pettis, have not seen a 3 or
4-year old queen with my own eyes since 2002.
If anyone else has any, I'm sure we'd all like to hear about it, and so
would various R&D teams.

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