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Re: Diploid drones
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Peter Borst <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 11 Sep 2015 18:06:02 +0000
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> On Sep 11, 2015, at 7:55 AM, [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

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> Is it possible to get a group of 30 queens from a commercial source that are laying diploid drones?  How would they get to that level of inbred breeding?



Honestly, what would you want them for? I don’t believe anyone but Jerzy Woyke in Poland has gone to the trouble to raise diploid drones. 



> The drones are eaten by worker bees shortly after hatching. Prof. Woyke developed a method for rearing drones from fertilized eggs to the adult stage. No one had ever seen such drones before.  He discovered and described the diploid and multiple spermatozoa produced by the diploid drones.



Wilde, J. (2012). Professor Jerzy Woyke Honorary Life Member Of IBRA. Bee World, 89(1), 12-13.



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