On 19/03/2014 10:24 PM, Peter L Borst wrote:
> After mere hours, they are ready to go to work for any queen, which 
> indicates to me that they are programmed to cooperate and support _a 
> queen_ and that the queen uses chemicals (queen mandibular secretions) 
> to command and control the colony.

The fact that they can be tricked into accepting an unrelated queen does 
not change the fact that a change to an unrelated queen means the hive 
is effectively dead.   It may well be still a vibrant producing hive 
from a beekeepers point of view but those previous genes have gone.

Geoff Manning

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