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Re: Drone Eye Colour
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Steve Rose <[log in to unmask]>
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Informed Discussion of Beekeeping Issues and Bee Biology <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 19 Jun 2009 19:07:53 +0100
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Save Tharle wrote:
> While we were lifting brood today, one of my men found a hive in which the drones had yellow/green (almost fluorescent) eyes.... Then you focus and you realize that these are the heads of drones not the legs of workers.  Something new for this outfit anyways.
>   
I understand that it's a recognised but uncomon genetic problem - of the 
drones rather than the onlooker!

Steve Rose
Wales

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