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On 27/11/2013 9:08 AM, JWCastanea wrote:
> the queen sleeps with every Tom, Dick and Harry and her children are run-of-the-mill. The drones have no fathers, only grandfathers.
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> I argue that the "normative impulse" or "sleeping with Tom, Dick and Harry" are central to Bee ecology. They are resisting speciation, refusing to change, able to interbreed from South Africa to Finland. This makes the human effort to domesticate traits conducive to management (and jet-setting parasites) especially difficult -- the bees have a global anti-speciation strategy.
No, she only sleeps with drones from hives that were good enough to
produce them, and with those drones fit enough to catch the queen.
Geoff Manning
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