Peter:
Dr. Gloria DeGrandi-Hoffman of the USDA Carl Hayden Bee
Research Center in Tucson has recently demonstrated that
these shiny black bees are "intermorphs" that have
characteristics of both workers and queens.

Reply:
Yes, and my husband Ed and I demonstrated for her and Dr
Erickson shiny back bees back in the 1980s when we were
doing thelytoky stuff with USDA FWIW, and intermorph or
intercastes as early written about in early Gleanings in
Bee Culture back pre-WW2 are nothing new, and in fact make
the best robber bees for commercial bee wars for territory
holding you can find..........Even wrote to other labs
about that......Baton Rouge to be exact, about those good
litte shiny black bees......Dr Levin wanted us to get
something going for pot stirring so we did FWIW ...

Dee A. Lusby


 
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