> because drones are attracted to the lures, we can’t know for sure how they’d behave when the lures aren’t there.
The Rothamsted study named in the subject line was done without any lures, and with tracking of flight of individual drones from multiple hives, so they do seem to congregate, even before any queens appear.
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