>From: Bob Harrison <[log in to unmask]>

>Date: Sat, Nov 18, 2000, 0:30>

> I know of no way
> to get bees to raise drones in Missouri in early March. If you know of a
> method please respond!

Possible method for raising drones, open for speculation and rebuttal.

Set up a colony of young bees in Jaunuary without a queen.  Would some of
the worker bees then commence to laying unfertilized eggs which would then
develop into drones?  After the cells were capped, the colony could then be
combined with a queenright colony and thus you would have a supply of drones
in very early spring.  However, would they be large enough since they would
have been raised in worker cells?

Mike Stoops
Located between Montgomery and Mobile, Alabama, USA