Some time ago, I promised to post the Web-address once my article
on sperm usage is published:
 
http://link.springer.de/link/service/journals/00265/bibs/8042004/80420247.htm
 
Essentially, I used an observation hive and determined paternity in a number
of sequentially laid eggs (total number of 606 eggs in 21 h of observation,
or on average 0.48 eggs per minute).
The queen has been determined to have mated with 7 males.
Following is part of the paternity sequence (each letter represents one
subfamily or drone, an X represents an cannibalized egg/larva):
 
.. A B B E A X B A D D E E C C X A X B F X X A B B X X D D A
 D B A X A C A E B A C E X G C A C C A A F D X B C ...
 
 
 
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