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Date: | Mon, 23 Jan 1995 08:05:00 -0700 |
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Some basic queen introduction methods (push-in cage, push-in cage with
newly emerged bees, candy-release mailing cage, Miller introduction
cage, nucleus combination, shaking bees in front of hive) have been
described in Contemporary Queen Rearing 1979 by Harry Laidlaw, other
books on queen rearing ,or perhaps more recently in one of the journals.
I hadn't heard of the alcohol method.
I expect that someone will eventually uncover some relationship of
formic acid to the queen recognition process. I have reports of several
observations of temporary (a few days) apparent loss of queen
recognition in colonies treated with this chemical for mite control.
Sometimes the effect is recognised as death of the queen (sometimes a
dead queen is found).
If it could be made predictable, the technique has potential value in
requeening colonies without finding the old queen.
Kerry Clark, Apiculture Specialist
B.C. Ministry of Agriculture
1201 103 Ave
Dawson Creek B.C.
V1G 4J2 CANADA Tel (604) 784-2225 fax (604) 784-2299
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