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One of my Inspectors with over 30 years of experience saw something
yesterday that he had never seen before. A group of about 30-40 drones
came into this inspectors backyard, which at this time has no colonies,
and alighted on an old location that had a colony on it in the past. He
was familiar with DCA's and immediately checked for a queen. None was
found nor any workers just a "swarm" of black drones that stayed on that
site for several hours walking around. With our AHB situation in Florida
his question was is this related to this issue. I couldn't answer that.
What does the group think? Jerry
G. W. Hayes, Jr.
Assistant Chief
Bureau of Plant and Apiary Inspection
Apiary Inspection Section
Division of Plant Industry
P O Bx 147100
Gainesville FL 32614-7100
(352) 372-3505 ext 128
(352) 334-0715 FAX
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