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Madeleine Pym <[log in to unmask]>
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Sat, 2 Jan 1999 23:19:56 -0000
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Hi there everyone, hope you have all survived the festive season. Bees are
out flying a little here on the better days, the Mahonia is in flower and
they are collecting pollen.
 
Now then how about this one!
My father was told by someone at the National Honey Show here in the UK this
autumn, that some researchers in Germany have suggested that it is not the
queen that fertilises her eggs but the workers. They are suggesting that the
workers collect the semen from the queen and deposit it themselves,
presumably in the cell, after the egg has been laid.
 
Anyone else heard this one.
 
Madeleine Pym
London

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