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Re: Queen banks
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T & M Weatherhead <[log in to unmask]>
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Informed Discussion of Beekeeping Issues and Bee Biology <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 8 Jun 2001 06:49:08 +1000
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Aaron wrote

> On my second bank, I checked two days ago and the queen had been
> released and way laying.  I checked yesterday, the queen is gone and
> there were more than a few but less than a lot of capped emergency
> queen cells.

How long was the queen banked in the hive?  There was work done by Graham
Kleinschmidt in Australia that showed that queen held in a bank (queenless
as I recall) were superceded after a short time if they were banked for more
than 28 days.  Don't know why.

Trevor Weatherhead
AUSTRALIA

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