Odd looking drone

[MikeWade]

Does anyone have any ideas of what is wrong with this drone. Saw it today in colony inspection. Everything else in the hive looked fine. It almost looks like it's had it's thorax scalped. It was not behaving abnormally either.

Thx for any replies in advance

Mike

 

[Anduril]

Is it paint? Someone practicing painting queens but using drones instead.

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[GuyNir]

Is it paint? Someone practicing painting queens but using drones instead.

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I thought the same. Several times I had marked drones in my hives, not my doing.

 

[madasafish]

I thought the same. Several times I had marked drones in my hives, not my doing.

ditto

 

[MikeWade]

Nope. Not paint. But when I looked really close the colour and texture of it was like brood

 

[Anduril]

This is all I can find, but that drone isn't blind. http://honeybeesanadventure.--------.com/2012/05/honeybee-with-white-eyes-and-thorax.html?m=1

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[pargyle]

You do occasionally get mutant drones .. sometimes white ... there are various flavours, none are long lived .. some like this one, have wings that won't lie flat to the body and may not be able to fly. Usually more lost pigment areas than seen on this one. I've only ever seen one at the association apiary - pointed out to me as an Albino Drone. I don't know much about them - it's to do with recessive genes - google Albino Drones - bound to be something about them on the net.

 

[Hedgerow Honey]

I was going to post the same question as we found one almost exactly the same, ours had no wings though, not DWV, no sign of wings whatsoever.
over thirty years of bees and never seen it before.

 

[smok]

I spotted today during inspection

 

[Erichalfbee]

Oh poor wee man!