Hi Randy

Honestly, that was just the first sentence of the blurb ("Queenless bees will produce worker jelly and royal jelly from their hypopharyngeal and mandibular glands when half-chromosome grafted larvae are presented in their hive.")

The whole thing was either garbled in translation or these folks are barking up the wrong tree. We already know that queenless bees lay "half chromosome" eggs themselves and feed them as if they were going to develop into something other than dinky little drones. 

Why, then, would anyone then go to the trouble to graft larvae from unmated queens, which are physiologically the same? Next we would have to address the question of "Why would the royal jelly fed to drone larvae by queenless bees be better in any way than other forms of royal jelly?" 

None of these statements seem to be plausible. The claim that 14 amputations were avoided by the use of a product with this substance in it ... wonders never cease!

PLB

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