> Allen Dick responded to my post "Re:Bee Introductions/Cape Honeybees"
> with the following:
>
> < I'm not familiar with the mechanism by which the capensis overrun
> < the honeybees. In a few words, could you elaborate please?
 
Listening in on a superb explanation, thanks for such detail. I'd like
to clafiry a couple of items if I may:
 
> 3. Capensis queens can control (inhibit) capensis workers; scutellata
> queens cannot.
 
Does this mean that capensis laying  workers  go  totally  out  of
control in scutellata colonies.  I understand that thay lay fairly
regularly even in native colonies.
 
> 6. Because capensis workers produce parthenogenetically all brood
> produced by these workers will be female. That is, they do not
> produce drones like the laying workers of other bee races...
 
I guess that they produce _both_ M &  F  (diploid),  unlike  other
races that produce (virtually) only male progeny.  Right or wrong?
 
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