RAB so quick to put people down
Not at all. Only if the cap fits. Your reading skills are clearly a bit lacking as you completely missed the previous sentence I wrote. One book is not exactly a list, but it is a start, I suppose.
I don't know the full context of that section in the book, but if that is exactly what it means, then it is clearly incorrect. And if so, new beeks learn this carp from carp writers of carp books? Makes me wonder what else these so called 'experts' teach the unsuspecting. That shallow brood boxes are ''supers''? That queens ''hatch'' twice - once from the egg and again from the pupal stage? That shallow boxes are still ''supers'' when clearly they are not (when placed UNDER)?
That book should not be on the list of suggested reading for new beeks, if it states things like that. What it should have made clear is that laying workers no longer fly - as in foraging. Exactly like queen - she no longer flies once mating flights are over. But clearly she can still fly (swarming or from a beeks fingers at a clumsy moment?). Perhaps these authors think their errors, mistakes, lies, etc will not be noticed because the books only appeal to those that don't know any better. Poor state of affairs if there are lots of these carp books out there.
As they say 'one swallow does not make a summer', so lets be having the rest of this long list of carp books. Back to you, as I don't read these seemingly carp bee books - I rely on the proper authors, who wrote proper sentences and meant exactly what they said. Perhaps not all completely correct in every aspect, but the modern book authors have seemingly not learned a lot from these old tomes. Umpteen decades on and they can't get right what beeks knew to be true a century ago, or even more.
