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Interesting new article over at "The Apiarist".
https://www.theapiarist.org/if-it-quacks-like-a-duck/
David suggests that emerging (releasing) multiple virgins at the same time causes casts:
"So, perhaps hive inspections that (inadvertently) result in the release of multiple virgin queens are the colonies that subsequently slice’n’dice themselves to oblivion by producing lots of casts."
However Wally Shaw promotes multiple releases (pulling queens) as fool-proof way of preventing casts.
Anyone?
https://www.theapiarist.org/if-it-quacks-like-a-duck/
David suggests that emerging (releasing) multiple virgins at the same time causes casts:
"So, perhaps hive inspections that (inadvertently) result in the release of multiple virgin queens are the colonies that subsequently slice’n’dice themselves to oblivion by producing lots of casts."
However Wally Shaw promotes multiple releases (pulling queens) as fool-proof way of preventing casts.
Anyone?