I found a reliable witness to bees moving eggs: Gleanings in bee culture 1882 March Page 126 One more corroboration was noted. In one hive, a queen was observed dropping eggs, not in cells, but on the top of the comb, whilst a number of bees were, with the utmost order and eagerness, watching and picking up the eggs, and placing tbem in cells. In this case, could the queen instruct the bees where each egg was to be deposited, If her will regulated the sex, or did they instinctively know the proper cell for each egg? It could scarcely be. The only warrantable and logical conclusion is, that the ova of a fertilized queen-bee, in a sense differing from that of a virgin queen, or even a fertile worker, belongs to neither sex, being for the time neutral, having its future sex determined by the cell In which it Is placed, and the treatment to which it is subjected by the bees. -K. Edward Montrose, Scotland, Dec. 5,1881. Best Wishes Joe Waggle *********************************************** The BEE-L mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html Guidelines for posting to BEE-L can be found at: http://honeybeeworld.com/bee-l/guidelines.htm