Hello to all,
  Going thru my hives this spring I found one with a failed queen. She
was a Buckfast I bought and introduced in the spring of 2003.
The hive was full of drone brood on approximately three deep frames.
After three times (two different days) extensively searching thru the
hive I concluded there is no queen in the hive. I did mark the queen in
September of 2003. Also in the last week of February of this year there
was no brood in the hive.
  What I found interesting, was the white eyed drones in the hive. These
drones seemed to be blind as I have read in previous posts to Bee-L.
When I picked up one to bring home to photograph, they acted as if they
couldn't see me reaching for them as a drone normally would. They didn't
run from my fingers.
Did anybody ever study these white eyed drones in depth? Can they be
reproduced? Or are they a result of a laying worker?

Thomas Martin
Shippensburg, Pa

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