> “The ‘queen control’ and ‘queen signal’ hypotheses cannot be distinguished empirically” (Ronai, 2016).

Gosh, I can't be the only beekeeper to keep both a handful of "retired" queens and a few queen cages double-ziplocked in the deep freeze, to use as a temporary replacements to keep a queenless colony from descending into chaos, can I?

I have no idea what pheromone(s) might be in play, and I sold my VOC-collection "Yaeger pump" long ago, so I'm in no position to test, but when a queenright colony is not possible, a dead queen will do for a short period in a pinch, and even a zip-lock bagged and frozen wooden 3-hole queen cage will help.  Its not a pheromone lure, but it is close.

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