--- Dee Lusby wrote:

> Reply:
> No offense Herve, but when you drop in virgins to
> hives
> marked to change over, you see a defininte color
> change in
> the queens.

As a hobbyist beekeeper I ussually stay out of these
discussions, but as a scientist I can't let this one
pass.  Dee, you're contending that they way that you
know that the virgin queen you placed is the one that
you see later is that she looks DIFFERENT?  I
understand that as queens start laying they may go
through morphologic changes, but since this is so, how
can you possibly know that the changed queen is the
one that you placed?  It sounds as though your
techniques work well for you, but without studying
them in a controlled fashion, you can't make
scientifically valid statements about them.  The
plural of "anecdote" is not "data".
-Lee McMurtry 

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