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> >I disagree that queen attractiveness causes the phenomenon of uneven
> distribution of bees following package installation.
I'm surprised by the above statement Pete. We set out thousands of nucs
each spring for mating. In a small proportion, we accidentally allow a
queen to slip through. So in a mating yard of 50 nucs, there may be one or
two that contain a queen.
By the next day, bees from the queenless nucs will have drifted to the few
queen-containing nucs to the extent that they can't all fit inside. That
suggests to me that queen attractiveness indeed results in the drift and
uneven distribution of bees.
--
Randy Oliver
Grass Valley, CA
www.ScientificBeekeeping.com
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