[at-l] Bees-OT

[Carla & Dave Hicks]

A virgin queen is breed once, for life.  A very interesting story in itself. 
There are commercial suppliers who specialize in artificial insemination. 
 BTW -- never met one nicknamed "thumbs."

Subsequently, after a short life cycle [21 days to hatch & a working life of 
42 days] all the workers in the colony will have been produced by that queen.

So, you need not buy a whole colony, if you end up with natural selection 
resulting in an aggressive strain [AHB as an extreme], or you want to a gentle 
bee for cold weather, or you want to try the Russians, etc.  All you need to 
do is re-queen.

In fact, many commercial keepers re-queen every colony every year.

Chainsaw

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Question?  I have seen it mentioned in a few items that replacement of  the
Queen will calm a hive down and make it more gentle.  How so?   Does the Queen
stir up the swarm?  Is there some guidance by the Queen to  protect or to be
less protective?

Curious Skylander Jack
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