Finman
Queen Bee
- Joined
- Nov 8, 2008
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- Finland, Helsinki
- Hive Type
- Langstroth
I have to disagree.
The workers will only ever be 50% related to the queen so, even in the first generation, 50% of their behavior will be influenced by the drones which the queen mates with. This is true of all open mated queens.
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You need only a small amount of evil bees in the colony and they will take care of defense forces.
But it helps when I have spare queens and I change the Queen at once when I notice their nature. I can buy too a Queen. Inbreeding problem is more difficult to notice.