> >Instead of admonishing us for not reading, perhaps one should be
> concerned about typos. The above is no doubt a typo.


Not an admonishment, simply a reference for the statements that I made,
with the corresponding citations for supporting literature.  And, no, it
was not a typo.


> >An unfertilized egg becomes a drone.


And, as you mentioned at the end of the post, so can a fertilized egg.

>And the statement that there is no genetic change, is overly simplistic.

Perhaps, but factually correct, and an important point.

>To state that the workers are undeveloped is erroneous, the queen and the
worker are both fully developed but different with different features.

Don't know which statement you are referring to.  Workers are female bees
with underdeveloped sexual characteristics.

>
> >Further complicating matters is the fact that there are two castes of
> workers, short lived and long lived.
>

Yes indeed--further evidence of the remarkable plasticity of the honey bee!
-- 
Randy Oliver
Grass Valley, CA
www.ScientificBeekeeping.com

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