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Any queen must be evaluated indirectly because only worker bees express the VSH trait. One can only measure VSH through the behavior of worker bees. The worker bees that are sisters to your queen have been evaluated, and we produce our queens from colonies with high scoring workers. Additionally, your queen has been inseminated with semen from the drone progency of a queen that had high scoring sisters.
We do not test the progeny of your breeder queen. This would require keeping your queen at least six weeks longer or until she produced a poulation of workers we could test for VSH.
Last updated on December 15, 2020 by web admin