I remember reading on the Bee-L a while ago some questions and answers regarding how many drone laying colonies to expect, etc. I think it was Vince Coppola who said that this was becoming (or is) a major problem. I just went thru my 140 colonies in eastern PA and found 7 drone layers. This is far more of this kind of thing that I can remember. These bees were recently inspected and found to have few or no varroa mites (most yards had no mites in several ether rolls and a few had one mite in several ether rolls) and no tracheal mites. As I believe Vince asked, may we have some futher discussion on this, or comparison of others' observations? Jim King