On 20/02/2012 1:21 PM, Jorg Kewisch wrote:\\
> This is different from what my bee teacher told me. My bees eat
what??? Can you recommend a book that I can understand without a degree
in biology?
Don't worry about it Jorg. In practical terms diploid drones are the
result of inbreeding, beekeepers see it as spotty brood, and take steps
to avoid it. A hive may well have a few diploid drones laid at any
given time but the number is so small as not to matter. What you will
see in your normal hive are haploid drones, laid in drone cells, so to
this extent it is somewhat academic, but very interesting for all of
that. IIRC it was George Woyke from Poland who did the elegant work on
this.
Geoff Manning
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