> Early last week before this subject discussed at Bee_L, I wrote a note
> about walk away splits and queens quality to be published in Alberta
> Newsletter "July issue". It was based on a recently published research
> paper ..

Thanks for that Medhat.  I've been looking for something definite on the
topic for a long time now.

Without diminishing the importance of such a study, or arguing with its
observations, I must say that I presume that it is only one study, and
covers one specific location, one specific strain, and one specific time in
the season.  Maybe not?  I'd love to read it.

Considering that we have just discussed here the apparent fact that some
strains of bees in some situations seem to do well after raising emergency
cells, and others definitely do not, I am hoping others will replicate the
study soon.  I also surmise from your comments that only the age of the
larvae was determined, not the properties of the resulting queens.  That is
something that IMO bears some study as well.  Have you any proven data on
the quality of emergency queens, and any data on their performance compared
to mail-order queens?

Again, thanks for the tip, and if you can, maybe email me a copy.

allen

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