On 19/03/2014 10:24 PM, Peter L Borst wrote:
> After mere hours, they are ready to go to work for any queen, which
> indicates to me that they are programmed to cooperate and support _a
> queen_ and that the queen uses chemicals (queen mandibular secretions)
> to command and control the colony.
The fact that they can be tricked into accepting an unrelated queen does
not change the fact that a change to an unrelated queen means the hive
is effectively dead. It may well be still a vibrant producing hive
from a beekeepers point of view but those previous genes have gone.
Geoff Manning
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