Laying Workers

[Dallasbeek]

A little off topic, but are drones from a laying worker sterile?

    Can you give me any resources or references for this statement ??

My post was a question, ending with "?". Sawdustmakr answered it, I believe.  I can't find anything in my searches to the contrary, so I'll accept Sawdustmkr's answer as fact unless and until some scientific evidence to the contrary turns up.  Even then, I'm finding more and more that "facts" today may be "myths" tomorrow.  Somewhere in this forum I questioned whether a laying worker's egg could be made into a queen and found that in the African cape honeybee, this is common and in rare instances can happen in the European honeybee.  I believe Buzzbee was the one that set me straight on that one.  The forum is a limitless fount of knowledge and I'm just asking questions in an attempt to learn. 

Gary

            BEE HAPPY Jim 134 :)

[Dallasbeek]

Read Iddee's signature quote from Shel Silverstein and you'll see kinda what I was referring to in my last post.

Best regards and keep up the quest and questions.


Gary

[Dallasbeek]

I'm still struggling with how to use some tools in the forum, Jim 134.  My response to your post should not have been in blue as a quote.

Gary