Queens mate with more drones than you think

[Walrus]

I think that fatshark's latest blog post, "Who's the Daddy?" is a thought provoking read:

https://theapiarist.org/whos-the-daddy/

The books appear to understate the number of drones that queens mate with (average from the experiment shown was 33), and there is a strange preference towards raising cells from the rarer lines in an emergency situation (ie queen removed).

 

[Erichalfbee]

Yes fascinating reading.
There was an article published last year too
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0199124
Bees sometimes know best?

 

[Repwoc]

Yes fascinating reading.
There was an article published last year too
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0199124
Bees sometimes know best?

That's the paper Fatshark referers to in his blog.

 

[Erichalfbee]

That's the paper Fatshark referers to in his blog.

Yes it is
Sorry only skimmed the blog entry