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Wow really. I would be interested to read the literature about that if you have any links/references? please

Except that they have been shown to make orientation flights I think from day 3 after emergence.

Is it possible that beyond a certain distance, dumped laying workers can’t find their way back to their own hive because they have been...

That’s what I have read. Which suggested that the LW are predominantly house bee’s that if shaken out a distance from the hive will be...

Strange difference - I usually have a patch of phacelia on my allotment and it germinates well and re-seeds if I let it. I grow it for...

No. OK, OK, more words: I reckon they can distinguish between the weirdy world of laying workers and gen-u-ine queen pheromone...

That sounds interesting, I’m tempted to give it a go. Can’t see that there will be much to lose. Going to get my 2 new Queens introduced...

Nor exactly that, but one year I took the LW hive away, put in its place a Q+ nuc, shook out the LWs somewhere, and a couple of days...

Interesting idea 🤔 it might be worth a try. I do have a couple of Q+ nuc’s so can’t think there would be anything to lose in putting...

Had to take 30 frames of cut comb off so I could get the empty frames back on. Everything is full to the brim and bees are struggling to...

It’s wrong.

I had a failed nuc where the comb was all drone. Set up with QC in mid-May. QC emerged but by mid June there were multiple eggs in...

I wonder how these falsities get published? Obviously not a peer reviewed publication. Not too disappointed as I wasn’t looking forward...

Thanks I will do

Wow 😮 that’s amazing, nature with a little help from the beekeeper wins through 😂