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Re: Queen Banks
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Geoff Manning <[log in to unmask]>
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Informed Discussion of Beekeeping Issues and Bee Biology <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 8 Jun 2017 21:44:49 +1000
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> We heard Prof Woyke talk at the Australisian Bee Congress 1988.
>  He suggested that the bees chewing off the tasal pads was the main cause
> of supersedure and suggested that we give the queen somewhere she could
> retire to where the bees can't get at her.

I also recall during the course on genetics and AI he ran with Gretchen
Wheen following the Congress, he was unable to find any damage to the
supplied queens held in wooden cages with fly wire.

Geoff Manning

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