In bee society, if I'm correct, there is only one queen. Other females are around, but will be killed by the queen as they mature. In the absence of a queen, one of those other females will take her place.

However, if the queen scent is found away from the nest, the worker/drone wasps are going to want to go to it. They can't help it. They're just stupid men driven by their...well, I better stop before Guy gets upset with me for saying that, LOL

(I'm just kidding Guy...I'm just making light of a typical biological function! LOL)

Pheromones are POWERFUL things!

I don't think wasps have the same sort of hive structure that honeybees have, with a queen, workers and drones.

FWIW, the only male bees are the drones, who are relatively short lived and whose only purpose is to mate with the queen. The workers are female bees, which have not been fed royal jelly, and therefore develop differently than the queens, which are fed it. It's any additional queen bees that the queen usually kills, not the workers. If the colony gets large enough, a new queen will split off with part of the hive, and swarm off to find a new spot to start another hive.

Soooo.....

Who's read Dahls' "Royal Jelly"?



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Those who forget the pasta are doomed to reheat it.

Oooh, nice seamless diversion to a new topic there, Intrigue!

Intrigue, I have--très surreal!

I love that story! But then I love all of Dahl's stuff, especially the weird ones...



I drink to drown my sorrows. Unfortunately they've learnt how to swim.

No.

So why am I in this conversation exactly?

<leaves with dignity>



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Dignity? In the fforum? Are you SURE that you're in the right place? :-)

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"God rot Botchkamos Istochnik!"

All together now...

There's no decorum,
In the fforum...

Hey! I'm sure that was orignally my rhyme in a limerick...



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There's a hole in my creativity bucket and it's all leaked out.

Have you ever had you qutoed back to you before?

You've never seen 'Up Pompei'?

Um, no. I guess I'm usually not worth qutoing.



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There's a hole in my creativity bucket and it's all leaked out.

Erm...qutoing? Does that involve fancy footwear?

Could do. I don't know. I was copying Kaz's spelling.



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There's a hole in my creativity bucket and it's all leaked out.

I thought we established long ago that I can't spell. Actually, I CAN spell. I'm just a dyslexic typer.

You should identify with Mildred then, who is dyslexic when typing, talking and pretty much everything else too.



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