Hi All,

Please correct me if I am wrong but Supersedure starts with the workers
building queen cup/s on the side of comb/s and then the queen laying egg/s
in the cup/s, and the supersedure queen develops from the start from an egg
then larva being fed lavishly to develop a quality queen. As I understand
this supersedure is by design of the workers. I also understand that any
queen developed by larva one day old or older is an emergency queen by
design either of the workers or the beekeeper. Grafting one day old larva
therefore develops an emergency queen. Most all production queens are
produced by design as an emergency queen. Only queens developed from the egg
is not an emergency queen. I am not sure if supersedure queens can be
induced but swarm queens can be induced. The beekeeper and Author of "Better
Queens" Jay Smith is one commercial production queen producer of queens that
ended up producing queens from eggs instead of producing from grafting
larva. He describes how to in his book "Better Queens". To me queens from an
egg is the only real way to produce real well developed queens. It is not
easy but it can be done.

 . ..   Keith Malone, Chugiak, Alaska USA, http://www.cer.org/,
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http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ApiarianBreedersGuild/

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