"Loyalty Nearly Killed My Beehive"

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September 23, 2014 at 12:54 am #9073
Karim Sahli
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“My queen was a dud, and her replacement had been murdered.”

With that kind of title, you can’t help but read this post, can you? Turn out it’s a good read.
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September 24, 2014 at 5:44 pm #9078
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September 25, 2014 at 7:36 pm #9081

susan rudnicki
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I am afraid of new beeks reading this piece and getting really mixed up about the genetics thing—what the queen does, what the workers do to make a replacement queen, how a queen mates, who is “fertilized” and who is not, where the queen mates (not in her own hive with her own drones) There are a dozen technical inaccuracies here and I hardly know where to start. Suffice to say—come to the next meeting on “bee biology” and learn how it really works

September 25, 2014 at 7:36 pm #9082

susan rudnicki
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I am afraid of new beeks reading this piece and getting really mixed up about the genetics thing—what the queen does, what the workers do to make a replacement queen, how a queen mates, who is “fertilized” and who is not, where the queen mates (not in her own hive with her own drones) There are a dozen technical inaccuracies here and I hardly know where to start. Suffice to say—come to the next meeting on “bee biology” and learn how it really works
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