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Updated Virgin Queen Introduction Protocol
The Stevens Method of virgin queen introduction was born out of failures to introduce freshly inseminated queens that were 10 days old. This method was developed in the spring of 2015 after learning to inseminate queen honey bees from Sue Cobey in 2014. The bees had lovingly cared for my prized breeder queens to be in their cages prior to insemination, but to my frustration routinely decided to murder them once they were released from the protection of their queen cage. Each
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