On Thursday, November 27, 2003, at 07:57 AM, allen dick wrote:
>
> Seems to me also that I read, probably here somewhere, that a study
> showed
> that the transition from summer to winter bees normally took place at a
> certain time of the summer, but was found to ocur later if a new queen
> was
> introduced close to that time.  Was this due to the new queen laying
> more
> eggs to be fed, the gap in brood rearing, the nature of the new queen?
> Dunno.
>

In April we read about findings at the University of Illinois related
to the transition between house bee and forager being triggered by the
"forager gene".  (http://www.cyberbee.net/news/foraginggene.html is one
place to read the information.)  Has there been similar research or
findings related to the transition between Summer and Winter bees, or
what the difference might be between them?

> Happy Turkey Day to our southern neighbours.

<burp>  Thanks, Allen.

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