From: Juanse Barros <[log in to unmask]>

>Now the question is if this Kamakura royalactin decreases DNA methylation?

....or if females really really want to be queens, and are only halted at "worker level" by an overlapping array of mechanisms...and defeating any one of them opens the floodgates.  

....but there sure is a lot of royal jelly when the queen cell is capped (you can see it through the plastic), and it's almost all gone by the time she emerges...it's hard to argue that eating a lot of protien (royalactin or others) isn't  necessary for proper queen development (a fully functioning queen).  Workers don't eat that much food post capping....and queens that don't are stunted.

deknow

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