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Re: Queen quality effected by mating nuc size?
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randy oliver <[log in to unmask]>
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Informed Discussion of Beekeeping Issues and Bee Biology <[log in to unmask]>
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Sun, 24 Nov 2019 17:40:26 -0800
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> I've revisited the data of Rhodes and Sommerville regarding the failure
> rate of "early-pull" queens.

I had mentioned that some of my own queens fail in the first weeks.  But
"some" is nowhere near the
proportion of failure observed by the researchers.  It may well be that
forcing cessation of egglaying by a young queen
causes her to be superceded shortly after being introduced to a colony.
-- 
Randy Oliver
Grass Valley, CA
www.ScientificBeekeeping.com

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