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Jeff Hills, asking "Looking for advice on "drone-layers" ... is this a common
phenomenon? ..."
I perceive that the term "drone layer" has not been sufficiently defined for
everyone. Those of us with a little more experience than others would
recognize the term "dron layer" as referring to a queen bee that lays drone
eggs and nothing but drone eggs. It has no semen, so cannot produce female
worker bees. It is not the same thing as a laying worker, and any and
every healthy, normal queen will lay some drone eggs and produce drones, and
at times they may be numerous. A "drone layer" produces NOTHING BUT DRONES.
Did I miss the mark, or was this where the question really lies? Sometimes
one receives what is supposed to be a mated queen in the mail from a queen
breeder, and the queen ends up producing nothing but drone offspring. This is
a "drone layer."
Layne Westover
College Station, Texas
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