I recently posted some questions on queen rearing on this forum and found the answers interesting, (I have being thinking dangerous thing)
Ok a virgin queen leaves to hive to be mated she then mates with a number of drones some say up to 15, whatever, if she is this promiscuous like this, is it possible she could pick up some STD from these drones which would have some adverse effects on her laying ability, eg Drones only, infertile altogether, or some other STD that we dont know about yet which could slowly kill her during the season or effect the whole colony throughout the season. Maybe i think too much.