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- From: Randall Austin <ra41717 AT gmail.com>
- To: Rich Snover <risnover AT aol.com>, Lewis Cauble <lewis AT hivebody.com>
- Cc: Rich Snover via ocba <ocba AT lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [ocba] virgin queen
- Date: Sat, 02 May 2015 12:12:01 -0400
Just as a bit of quite useful trivia,
Francois Huber discovered over 200 years ago that virgin queens
who are detained from mating past about two weeks of emergence
will always be drone layers, not successful worker-laying queens.
It isn't clear why that is true but that's the way it goes. So
while banking queens (caging them and keeping them until needed)
is okay, banking virgins doesn't work.
Huber was blind (he was quite a guy, not letting his so-called handicap affect his life); the queens weren't. But the outcomes would be the same if it had been the other way around. Randall On 5/2/2015 8:14 AM, Rich Snover via ocba wrote: D31CA23F-7D96-4B63-9C46-6CE391A09781 AT aol.com" type="cite"> |
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[ocba] virgin queen,
risnover, 05/01/2015
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Re: [ocba] virgin queen,
Marty Hanks, 05/01/2015
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Re: [ocba] virgin queen,
Walter Starks, 05/01/2015
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Re: [ocba] virgin queen,
Rich Snover, 05/01/2015
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Re: [ocba] virgin queen,
Lewis Cauble, 05/01/2015
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Re: [ocba] virgin queen,
Rich Snover, 05/02/2015
- Re: [ocba] virgin queen, Marty Hanks, 05/02/2015
- Re: [ocba] virgin queen, Randall Austin, 05/02/2015
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Re: [ocba] virgin queen,
Rich Snover, 05/02/2015
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Re: [ocba] virgin queen,
Lewis Cauble, 05/01/2015
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Re: [ocba] virgin queen,
Rich Snover, 05/01/2015
- Re: [ocba] virgin queen, Rich Snover, 05/01/2015
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Re: [ocba] virgin queen,
Walter Starks, 05/01/2015
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Re: [ocba] virgin queen,
Marty Hanks, 05/01/2015
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