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In a message dated 17/11/2006 13:53:15 GMT Standard Time,
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<<Hi Dave,
I think you are referring to the cases of "Anarchy" that were found, where
many laying workers were thriving above a queen excluder. This is indeed
rare, but they DO NOT produce queens. I don't know of ONE single credible
account of a honey bee worker ever producing an egg that turned into a queen
(excluding Cape Bees, of course).>>
I can't place the source, but I've read somewhere that thelytoky was first
observed in a strain of 'Punic bees' from Tunisia, brought to England by John
Hewitt in, as far as I can make out, the 1880's. I believe the phenomenon was
spotted in 1892, and the queen ended up in the British Museum of Natural
History. If anyone lives in London, I would imagine she's still there. It would
be interesting to know more.
Regards,
Robert Brenchley
Birmingham UK
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