Hei! James E. Hoyt wrote: > One of the early bits of information my mentor imparted was that skunks > eat bees ........ Daniel J. Salemson wrote: > > I once saw a video about skunks munching on bees at night...... I asked an additional question about the drone slaughter behaviour of worker bees, which fortunately has nothing to do with skunks (we dont have them here in Norway!). Sounds like beekeeping in USA is fraught with all sorts of perils! And Liz Day wrote: > I don't keep bees, but just a guess - maybe the drones hadn't >had anything to eat in a while, maybe they were already half-starved in answer to How is it done... How can a worker force a much bigger drone to move in this way? Why were the drones acting as if they were already half dead? Well, maybe they were half-starved, if so, how on earth were they prevented from feeding long enough to get in that state? Any more ideas? Cheers Tony --------------------------------------------------------------- Anthony N. Morgan (Tony) Fax: +47 73 89 62 86 "Stavshagen" E-mail: [log in to unmask] Midtsandan Sor-Trondelag College 7563 MALVIK Elec. Eng. Department Norway 7005 TRONDHEIM, Norway ----------------------------------------------------------------