Don't the drones depend on the workers to feed them? Fred According to MORGAN, ANTHONY: > > Hei! > > James E. Hoyt wrote: > > One of the early bits of information my mentor imparted was that skunks > > eat bees ........ > > Daniel J. Salemson wrote: > > > I once saw a video about skunks munching on bees at night...... > > I asked an additional question > about the drone slaughter behaviour of worker bees, which > fortunately has nothing to do with skunks (we dont have them here in > Norway!). Sounds like beekeeping in USA is fraught with all sorts of perils! > > And Liz Day wrote: > > I don't keep bees, but just a guess - maybe the drones hadn't > >had anything to eat in a while, maybe they were already half-starved > > in answer to > How is it done... > How can a worker force a much bigger drone to move > in this way? > Why were the drones acting as if they were already half > dead? > > Well, maybe they were half-starved, if so, how on earth were they > prevented from feeding long enough to get in that state? Any more > ideas? > > Cheers Tony > --------------------------------------------------------------- > Anthony N. Morgan (Tony) Fax: +47 73 89 62 86 > "Stavshagen" E-mail: [log in to unmask] > Midtsandan Sor-Trondelag College > 7563 MALVIK Elec. Eng. Department > Norway 7005 TRONDHEIM, Norway > ---------------------------------------------------------------- >