supersedure
Americannoun
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Origin of supersedure
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This replacement process, known as supersedure, begins when thousands of worker bees sense that their queen is no longer producing enough eggs.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 22, 2025
"Previous studies showed that failing queens were heavily infected with viruses, and now we know that those infections can lead to supersedure, which is risky for the colony and expensive for beekeepers to manage."
From Science Daily ● Nov. 22, 2025
For years, beekeepers have noted increasing issues with queen failure and early supersedure.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 22, 2025
This was hard mind-work for me, but I mastered the situation and escaped supersedure and punishment.
From Biography of a Slave Being the Experiences of Rev. Charles Thompson by Charles Thompson
Was it not a supersedure of the old one, within the very language of the substitute for the bill which is now under consideration?
From Presidential Candidates: containing Sketches, Biographical, Personal and Political, of Prominent Candidates for the Presidency in 1860 by D. W. Bartlett
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