a Charles Linder snip followed by > my comments..
Very interesting!  Curious,  if and when you get un mature drones,  what effect does this have on a sample or collection?  Is it they have no sperm,  or??

>I just looked at the write up/poster of the first years experiment.  Really at this time I am not certain exactly where that data fit in with the total study (I seem to recall it went for two years).  Details are... the search for drones became harder and harder and in those yards were we capture drones (in some we did not), semen samples were extracted at the lab.  Early on I have to suspect we caught a lot of drones that were not sexually mature and when the student did the little process 'if' there was nothing there then no semen was collected. I suspect besides timing the 2 things the student learned were 1) getting the live drone specimen back to the lab alive and 2) the step by step process in extracting the semen. 

Gene back in central Texas..

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