>
> I am a bit surprised,  no one has addressed my question of if the repeated
> "requeening" is part of our issues with queens lasting les time?   Does the
> constant selection of newer younger queens lead us away from a genetic goal
> of longer lived queens??
>

Do we really think it is genetic factors that have shortened the life of
queens?  Does it not make more sense that it is the repeated exposure to a
variety of acaricides and/or pesticide exposure?

I suppose selecting for longer lived queens would to some extent select for
queens that were more tolerant to those exposures.

Adam
Barrie,ON

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