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Post by rbz on Mar 31, 2014 19:49:22 GMT -7
I have a whole hive of these guys!
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Post by rbz on Mar 31, 2014 20:08:41 GMT -7
Here's another one with a wild type drone in the same picture!
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Post by toddbalsiger on Apr 1, 2014 8:47:38 GMT -7
Is this real? I've never seen this. I'm going to do a Google search.
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Post by toddbalsiger on Apr 1, 2014 8:55:52 GMT -7
www.glenn-apiaries.com/oddball.html They are real. A recessive gene being expressed. What you really don't want Is both the male and female to carry this recessive gene so that it goes to workers or even the queen. I would argue this is not a good Gina have interesting but I'm good. I love how my iPad misconstrues words. I will let the reader try to figure out which words are wrong and what they're supposed to be.
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Post by rbz on Apr 1, 2014 10:21:05 GMT -7
Oh it's definitely real. I had a hive last year that had this mutation,but I had re-queened it. Since I raise my own queens, it would seem that one of boys managed to keep the trait in the gene pool. The first sighting I put off as an anomaly, but now that I found it again, perhaps it's time to hybridize my breeding stock so more
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Post by luterra on Apr 4, 2014 7:24:28 GMT -7
Just saw my first yellow-eye drone on Wednesday.
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Post by eastsidebuzz on Apr 6, 2014 9:56:07 GMT -7
There is a song about it I remember singing it in school. (Public school) Nowadays it is not done in school I think it is a religion or racism thing.
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Post by drew on Apr 6, 2014 15:36:18 GMT -7
You have your own cordovan bee thing going on. Think of the cash you could pull by selling your drones off....
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