If you catch the drones, they do not have stingers and venom sacs.
The removal of drones will not adversely affect the hive dynamics if you do 
not take them all.
They are plumper also.

If you can eat ants, honeybees should be a definite upgrade--no formic acid

Dan Veilleux
in the mountains of NC
zone 6a

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