> Allen Dick responded to my post "Re:Bee Introductions/Cape Honeybees" > with the following: > > < I'm not familiar with the mechanism by which the capensis overrun > < the honeybees. In a few words, could you elaborate please? Listening in on a superb explanation, thanks for such detail. I'd like to clafiry a couple of items if I may: > 3. Capensis queens can control (inhibit) capensis workers; scutellata > queens cannot. Does this mean that capensis laying workers go totally out of control in scutellata colonies. I understand that thay lay fairly regularly even in native colonies. > 6. Because capensis workers produce parthenogenetically all brood > produced by these workers will be female. That is, they do not > produce drones like the laying workers of other bee races... I guess that they produce _both_ M & F (diploid), unlike other races that produce (virtually) only male progeny. Right or wrong? > MIKE ALLSOPP > HONEYBEE RESEARCH DIVISION > PLANT PROTECTION RESEARCH INSTITUTE > P/BAG X5017, STELLENBOSCH, 7599 > SOUTH AFRICA > INTERNET : [log in to unmask] > TELEFAX : (021) 883-3285 > TELEPHONE: (021) 887-4690/1 Thanks, regards, -- Gordon Scott [log in to unmask] Compuserve 100332,3310 Basingstoke Beekeeper [log in to unmask] Pain lasts but a moment, it is the fear of pain that deadens the heart.