> In summary I do not see how a worker can emerge as one thing one time and
> emerge as some other thing some other time.  I think they all start out the
> same as what we call winter bees and their lives evolve depending on what
> is going on in the hive with respect to brood rearing.
>

Think queen which also start out as an egg but their feed shifts them to a
queen and not a worker. So why not the same for a longer lived worker bee,
just a shift in what they are fed.

Bill Truesdell
Bath, Maine

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