No, it started in 2019 at the Centre de recherche en sciences animales de Deschambault, the CRSAD, with the publication of Andrée Rousseau's article. My research project is the third in Quebec. If I am not mistaken, it is also underway in Alberta. Our results are extremely promising. We are now fine-tuning the technique. Mireille Lévesque has achieved a survival rate of more or less 75 per cent. In Andrée Rousseau's case, there is a survival rate of 86 per cent for the queens in her hive. It really is interesting.
The technique has to be fine-tuned. At the end of the season, we use the queens that are no longer attractive to the industry and we keep them until the next spring, so they are available at important points, that is, when we can form the nucleus colonies or divide our bee population and end the season with a sufficient number of hives. That is what is interesting.