Hi all:
Please keep in mind, if a sperm was damaged, it will never
make it into the egg. Sperms have to swim in the common
oviduct of the queen to enter the egg. If they are dead,
there is no chance.


Reply:
Not that I would want to get something going! No, not me
:<)

But,...................wasn't there writings published
early on in Bee World, concerning the fertilization of
eggs, and the fact that the queen lays the
egg...........like common regular eggs...and then in the
cell she adds sperm after laying the egg, and the workers
then, by either leaving the sperm, or cleaning off the
sperm that then migrate into the egg, determine whether or
not the eggs will become workers or drones?????


What is your rational on this POV from early texts?

Sincerely,

Dee A. Lusby
Small Cell Commercial Beekeeper
Tucson, Arizona
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/OrganicBeekeepers/


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