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Re: laying workers' flight?
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Allen Dick <[log in to unmask]>
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Discussion of Bee Biology <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Wed, 17 May 1995 12:28:30 -0600
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> Recent discussions suggested that laying workers can't
> fly, or don't fly as well as non-laying workers, and that
> is why dumping all bees out in the grass some distance
> from the hive will work when requeening.
 
Could it just be that they do not know where the hive mis, having not
been out lately and have little chance of finding it again?
 
W. Allen Dick, Beekeeper                        VE6CFK
Rural Route One   Swalwell   Alberta   Canada  T0M 1Y0
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