Hi Bob & all

Bob says (talking about mother and daughter supercedure)...

> From my personal experience I see the above as a very very rare occurrence
> at least in the bees we use in the U.S..

I am not surprised by this at all... Annual requeening will almost always
take this phenomena out of the equation, because it rarely happens until a
queen is at least 18 months old.

My actual thoughts on this aspect of behaviour are changing slightly. I
previously thought that this mother/daughter situation was a feature of AMM
bees (because that is where I have seen it to be commonplace), but I am
swinging around to view it as behaviour that enhances survival of well
adapted gene sets to particular conditions that are marginal for regular
'drone assembly' mating to occur.


Best Regards & 73s, Dave Cushman... G8MZY
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