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Allen Dick <[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, 25 Aug 2002 19:16:00 -0600
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> 5. Your call as to whether queen supercedure is good in the middle of the
> main honey flow.  To hear some on this list, the replacement queen must
be
> inherently inferior since she developed and mated on her own.
Personally,
> I don't like the unplanned, several week shutdown of brood rearing.  But,
> I'm not convinced that the bees can't do as good a job as a queen
grafter.

This is what I was wondering about.

I gather that the original queen goes missing or fails completely, then?

Or, why the interruption.  I was thinking supercedure can happen while a
queen is continuing to lay, thus my question.

allen

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