Randy wrote:

 


"Re queen differentiation, it seemed obvious to me the the queen is the
"default," and workers are merely starved and downregulated queens (to put
it simply)."

Maybe it's the other way around.  Workers are fed longer on a higher protein diet and develop specialised tools such as pollen baskets, shaped mandibles, a barbed sting that the queen lacks.

Chris 


 

 

 
 

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