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Offline don2

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Laying queen
« on: June 09, 2013, 09:35:03 pm »
How often will a queen lay too far ahead of the nurse bees? My queen is on fire. :roll: :) d2

Offline Michael Bush

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Re: Laying queen
« Reply #1 on: June 10, 2013, 10:34:03 am »
The bees usually control where she lays by filling cells with a little nectar to stop her... but sometimes she gets ahead of them...
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