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Subject:
Mating preferences
From:
Walter Zimmermann <[log in to unmask]>
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Informed Discussion of Beekeeping Issues and Bee Biology <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Fri, 17 Mar 2006 14:56:06 EST
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Waldemar asks...

> How does the queen select the drones she  mates with?
 
Dave Cushman replies...

> if the queen objected to such a grip      or      it was 
inapropriate from a racial  morphometric 'fit' point of view, then she 
may be able to avoid the  encounter.

So, if I have Russian Queens flying about to be mated, and along with  
Russian drones in that comet there appear some "others", has it been established  
that the "others will affect the "fit" or is it Russian drones and only Russians 
 ? 
and
who has done work on this?
 
Walter Zimmermann
Little Wolf Apiaries
Ontario

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