At 08:23 AM 9/18/97 -0600, you wrote:
>At 09:22 PM 16/09/97 GMT+0200, you wrote:
>>Hi All
>>
>>I checked on one of my favourite beeyards yesterday and I found that
>>something I tried had worked. We have a peculiar quirk around here
>>that workers will lay eggs if a queen dies and these will be raised
>>and develop into other workers as opposed to drones as normal. So,
>>when one of my hives developend laying workers it rapidly atrophied
>>into a lethargic irritating five frame hive with a bad laying
>>pattern.
>
 
Dear friend, what you suggest goes entirely against all current day teaching
about the caste of the honeybee.  According to modern day text, it is impossible
for an unfertilized egg to be other than a drone caste.  I am sure there is a
modern day explanation for your delima.
 
Jeff Barnett