Echos of the Moritz 'Royal Families' paper:
Rare royal families in honeybees, Apis mellifera 2005; Moritz et al
https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rc...33178914,d.bGs
The idea of allowing some degree of self selection is quite alluring and I have given it a fair bit of thought over the last couple of years but I've yet to work out a fair compromise between allowing them to choose for themselves and having easily managable cells to use -I reckon that the Miller method probably comes the closest and we have revisited the method a couple of times this year but for anyone working on a large scale I can't see it ever being a practical option.
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