The colony deals with many pathogens by simply increasing recruitment to
exceed attrition. A young queen boosts the rate of recruitment.
Ahh I thought she was eluding to something else. That seems to be the
common trend in beekeeping Somethings not right, requeen. A lot of guys
requeening 2-3 times a year. Maybe that has something to do with some of
our problems.....
Personaly its not my style. Hardly requeen at all, probably less than 20%
a year by my intentions. Splits and supercedures aside. Trying to develop
those Tim Ives queens 3-4 years old.
So far had good luck trying to address the issues instead of swapping the
queens constantly.
Charles
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