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Re: SUPERSEDURE OF QUEENS IN PACKAGE BEES
Of interest in the study were the amount of physically damaged queens
(paralyzed legs, etc).
But the issue that I experience these days is not queen failure, but rather
"failure to successfully supersede."
My memory is that back in the day, colonies quietly superseded failing
queens without issue. This appeared to also be the case back in the 1943
study cited by Pete, as indicated by the following quotation from the
Summary:
" The only difference that existed was that in the over-wintered colonies
the supersedure process rarely interfered with colony morale or production,
whereas in package colonies supersedure shortly after installation would
frequently cause the production factor of that unit to be reduced to zero."
In our California operation, we sometimes get weather events when the
virgins are ready to mate. They later begin to lay nice patterns, but are
quickly superseded. But the nucs continue to build normally. This may be
due to us starting with 5-frame nucs, rather than packages with little or
no brood.
--
Randy Oliver
Grass Valley, CA
www.ScientificBeekeeping.com
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