Re: varroa destructor introduction and evolution

"Charlie Kroeger" <ckrogrr@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> 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?

Don't know if it is fact but it does make sense.  Humans and many other 
animals have evolved this same instinct - why not bees?


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