Thought some of you might bee interested in this on-line article on
queen bee and laying workers.

Originally :The research is reported in the Oct. 6 issue of the journal
"Nature."

http://www.livescience.com/animalworld/051005_bee_hive.html

A couple of quotes:
"If a female worker breaks the code, the other females quickly devour
her rogue eggs."
"workers rear one last batch of males before the whole colony dies."
and:
"among Asian dwarf red honeybees, Apis florea, even females from other
hives get in on the action"

Comments?

Leland Hubbell

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