Finman
Queen Bee
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We seem to be going a bit off topic here.
The purpose was to try and understand why aggression with successive hybridization usually occurs second generation down stream from pure mated queen, not why they swarm.
You should first understand what is natural habits of the bees and what is made by human selection.
Along many crossings bees genome tend to return to its original model. Retarded, as they say.
When you buy a "pure" queen, actually you do not know what you bought and how "pure" it is. I have seen that professionals may sell what ever. There is no guarantee.
What is pure queen. Nature try to mix genes. That us why there is sex and queen mates with 16 drones.