Have you achieved your goals this season?

[For want of a better word]

Whilst it's obviously a crappy thing to happen . I'd question "thoughtless " im sure it's not widely known that you have exclusive rights to the Tamar valley and if it was known then as a conscious act it's still not "thoughtless ".
So a seasons queens are junked, how does that trash the work already done ?

Not the Tamar Valley.....

 

[B+.]

10 years of work... TITS UP !!

Much better to use II than to rely on open mating. No matter how isolated you think you are, there's always beekeepers you don't know about.

 

[B+.]

So a seasons queens are junked, how does that trash the work already done ?

It doesn't stop them from being used as drone mothers/ production colonies.

 

[user 6228]

Manage to get 8 Artificial trees occupied by reasonably strong colonies, and saw the queens go into most of them.