> > > I saw a worker laying an egg the other day. In a completely queen-right
> > > hive with a healthy, fecund queen. That made my whole week.

> This was discussed several years ago on this list.  It was under drones
> above the excluder.  There is research to show that workers do lay eggs and,
> naturally, they become drones.  They are drones in worker cells and not in
> drone cells which would stand to reason...

True, and the same topic came up recently in a different context when we
mentioned a report given by Gloria DeGrandi-Hoffman at the ABF in San Diego.
That particular BEE-L post is at
http://listserv.albany.edu:8080/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0104D&L=bee-l&D=0&P=2999
(Hope the URL does not wrap)

If I remember correctly, she indicated that small groups of Africanized workers
had been observed to invade European hives and lay eggs that developed into
queens and took over the hive.

allen

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