Joe Mc Cool asked about queen mating with multiple drones.
You are correct that she mates with multiple drones. If I remember the research right, the average number is somewhere around 14 but that depends a lot on drone availability and especially on weather.
She does store the sperm all in one organ so yes, it sort of mixes and you do get a mix of behaviors from a single queen's offspring. But there has been some recent research suggesting that sperm from Africanized drones "out-competes" other sperm and is preferentially used even among queens who have mated with drones in equal proportions. BeeCulture magazine has run some good articles on the topic recently.
Mike Rossander
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