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Title: Yellow Head Drone.
Post by: egehan on May 20, 2008, 04:41:23 PM
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I saw in colony. Yellow head drones....
Title: Re: Yellow Head Drone.
Post by: Bill W. on May 20, 2008, 05:54:05 PM
Interesting.  A think that eye color is one of the more common mutations.  Do the drones seem able to see, or are they blind as well?
Title: Re: Yellow Head Drone.
Post by: tillie on May 20, 2008, 10:28:26 PM
This was a question on the Journeyman certification exam I just took.  Because drones are haploid, recessive traits are expressed - in a diploid, the recessive trait is covered by a dominant trait.  This mutation is called chartreuse.

Linda T (Now a certified Journeyman - or Journeywoman beekeeper in the state of Georgia)