> It is highly probable the virgin queen will
> be fertilized by some or all of her male brothers.
> UC Davis' Apiarist was asked the above question: will the queen take
> on a drone from her hive during her maiden flight? The answer was NO
> due to her ability to sense the pheromone from her own hive and will
> spurn that drone.
I wonder how he would know this? Was he a beekeeper with closely held
spiritual beliefs that contained well grounded mores on the subject of
*****? Did he have the technical ability to separate out all the
different
types of sperm and determine that no sperm was present from the virgin's
own
hive? There's another thing, I didn't know the title 'Apiarist' came with
any scientific ****tfolio like say, Entomologist. So I take it you mean the
UC Davis Beekeeper whose name you failed to mention for possible cross
reference, has nonetheless, declared this proclamation to be the truth,
and
you are passing it on.
In the insect world and especially that of Apis Millifera I see little
wasted action without a reason or some singularity of purpose. I know when
the virgin sets forth the air is full of drones from the same box, they
being the first to know. Given the epochs of time bees have been around, I
find it hard to accept that drones in a particular hive would be useless
to
that hive. What would happen if the virgin flew out and there were no
other
drones in range, would she return chaste as it were, infertile? If that's
actually the case, can you prove it?
--
CK
> No arsenal, no weapon in the arsenals of the world,
> is so formidable as the WILL and moral courage
> of free men and women.
>
> -- Ronald Reagan
An apparent but clumsy paraphrasing of Victor Hugo's "Nothing is so
powerful
as an idea whose time has come" and a speech by Adolph Hitler.
Adolph Hitler was big on WILL too. "Leni" Riefenstahl a Nazi toady made an
otherwise brilliant propaganda film called; "Triumph of the Will."
The great divisive fool Ron Reagan was the stupidest president we ever had
until George Bush came along. I think now he can be happily relegated to
the
number 2 spot. He wasn't a bad guy intrinsically like George Bush. He was
just stupid, and he was an actor not a statesman. Things got worse after
he
was shot too, it was bad luck for us and the whole world.
Another Republican, one that wasn't stupid at least, Everett Dirksen,
added
a more martial tone for the American public: "Stronger than any army on
earth is an idea whose time has come."
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