Item Subject: Message text
Recent discussions suggested that laying workers can't
fly, or don't fly as well as non-laying workers, and that
is why dumping all bees out in the grass some distance
from the hive will work when requeening.
 
Can someone explain why laying workers can't fly so well?
Real queens can fly....I don't understand why a laying
worker (that is much smaller than a real queen) can't fly.
 
Does anyone know of any research to substantiate
the claim that laying workers don't fly well?
 
Thanks,
 
John Batson
Greenville SC
[log in to unmask]