Hi All While doing nucs recently I noted that there were dark drones, yellow drones etc as there are workers in the same hive. The workers being different makes sense to me as the queen mates with several drones, but where are the different coloured drones coming from? Drifting????? Bob Darrell Caledon Ontario Canada 44N80W *********************************************** The BEE-L mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html