We know queens are not into selfhelp in getting a feed.
That definitely isn't true - a virgin queen will scoff honey on emergence, and I've seen mated queens eating candy inside mailing cages.
Yeah, an error in being concise, such brevity implies an absolute.
I have seen drones scoffing spilt honey post frame workings on inspections.
So... IF drones are forming some variation of a Lodge meet 'n greet then;
a.) who does the catering?
This is precisely why I crossed swords with MB over the size of drones. He claims that small drones (say, from a Laying Worker) are equal or better than large-sized drones. I say cobblers to that idea - the larger the drone, the more 'fuel' can be carried, with more time then spent 'on patrol'.
You're right in my book... calories+body mass+ work is not
a straight line paradigm(word?)
b.) how do these guys get back home, accepting they "gather from miles around"?
c.) how does this hormone driven meandering (now) content queen find her way home, having supposedly travelled miles to the Lodge?
Bill, have you been peeking inside my computer ?
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...not I said the fly ;-)
I gave up om my "leet haxor" attempts the day they threw LaSange into the Equadorian (sp?) embassy. Them Americans take life way too seriously in these things.. heh :-)
LJ
Cheers.
Bill