> Drone congregation areas are not exactly places where drones congregate and spend a lot of time per se, or where the majority of matings occur. They are more the consequence of reorientations at the intersections of flyways.
I've always had a hard time envisioning a static DCA location because I couldn't make sense of what drones did there once they arrived.
> An alternative hypothesis is the “behavioral DCA hypothesis,” which says that DCAs could result from behavioral interactions of flying drones and queens (Loper et al. 1992). The physical and behavioral DCA hypotheses are not mutually exclusive. It is possible that certain flight paths with particular characteristics lead to particular interactions.
> Landscape Analysis of Drone Congregation Areas of the Honey Bee, Apis mellifera
Alberto Galindo-Cardona et al.
> https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3635128/#bibr20
Bill Hesbach
Cheshire CT
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