Roger White said:
"I have seen two laying queens and queens cells (sealed and unsealed) in
hives that have been treated with coumaphos. It is all to do with
Intercaste Syndrome which is caused by chemicals such as coumaphos."

Roger,

A search of the BEE-L Archives failed to come up with any additional posts
with "Intercaste Syndrome" as the quoted phrase. I frankly am not up to
date on this although I am aware of increased mortality and infertility of
queens and drones raised in an environment affected by "normal"
applications of various FDA (USA) approved pesticides. Could you and
others possibly expand on this hypothesis?

Thanks,

Chuck Norton
Norton's Nut & Honey Farm
Reidsville, NC

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