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Requeening queenright honey bee colonies with queen cells in honey supers.
Journal of insect science (Online) - 1 Sept 2023
Holmes Leslie A, Kearns Jeffery D, Ovinge Lynae P, Wolf Veiga Patricia, Hoover Shelley E
Abstract excerpt
Many Canadian beekeepers replace a subset of their honey bee queens annually. However, introducing a new queen to a honey bee colony is a management practice with a high degree of uncertainty. Despite the consensus that it is most effective to introduce queens to queenless colonies, some commercial beekeepers claim success with introducing queen cells into the honey super of queenright colonies. We tested the...
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