One of my Inspectors with over 30 years of experience saw something
yesterday that he had never seen before. A group of about 30-40 drones
came into this inspectors backyard, which at this time has no colonies,
and alighted on an old location that had a colony on it in the past. He
was familiar with DCA's and immediately checked for a queen. None was
found nor any workers just a "swarm" of black drones that stayed on that
site for several hours walking around. With our AHB situation in Florida
his question was is this related to this issue. I couldn't answer that.
What does the group think?  Jerry

 

 

 

 

 

 

G. W. Hayes, Jr.

Assistant Chief

Bureau of Plant and Apiary Inspection

Apiary Inspection Section

Division of Plant Industry

P O Bx 147100

Gainesville  FL  32614-7100

(352) 372-3505 ext 128

(352) 334-0715 FAX

 

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