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Dee wrote: "it has been documented that a certain percentage of the
laying workers eggs will be viable for production of virgin queens..."
Let me be the first to ask, "Where is this documented? Is it a
significant percentage or negligible?" I'll grant the benefit of the
doubt that is does happen (never say never), but I don't know that I
would throw out such a tidbit to a query from a newbie who wants to know
"how worker bees can develop their ovaries and become queens", without
making clear how rare is a viable laying worked. And in the cases when
a laying worker DOES produce a viable queen, the laying worker is
supersceded by her daughter. The laying worker is never (didn't I write
never say never) accepted by the colony as would be a true queen. For
all intents and purposes, Ruary's response is more on the mark that the
rare occasion to which Dee refers. Exactly HOW rare is a viable laying
worker I cannot say. Perhaps this figure is containted where "it has
been documented". My understanding (which may be flawed) is that it is
such a rare occurrence it hardly warrants mention.
Aaron Morris - I think, therefore I bee!
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