What if a drone was fed royal jelly??

[Mattl]

I know it is highly unlikely to happen naturally, but im sure it could be done in a lab. What would happen if a drone was fed royal jelly in the same quantities as a queen? Would anything happen?

This is what happens when i daydream about bees!

 

[VEG]

Maybe the only gay in the village lol

 

[Heather]

Big bloody drone! Royal jelly is just v high protein, wont change anything much. Maybe studman of the hive.

 

[Tom Bick]

From what I know they do try it sometimes when they are desperate but he dies.

The only King in beekeeping is experience.

 

[Finman]

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I have seen how bees have tried to make a queen from egglayer's egg, but I have not seen a capped result.

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[Goran]

I know it is highly unlikely to happen naturally, but im sure it could be done in a lab. What would happen if a drone was fed royal jelly in the same quantities as a queen? Would anything happen?

This is what happens when i daydream about bees!

I read in the one book that in extremely rare situations from " haploid pack" can lay out a queen.. But I doubt in quality or so, I think more as something that can happen.
Last year I think I had laying workers in one hive, they pulled out the queen cells above drone larva.. But torn them down..

 

[oliver90owner]

So what? It is not going to change much in the way of sexual maturity?

 

[RosieMc]

I had a drone layer once and the bees tried to make q cell out of it. The 'Kingcup', I don't know what else it would be called, grew to quite a size, but bent and misshapen

I tore it down and dealt with the laying worker(s). I do have an old photo, but I will have to get help to show me how to attach it to this forum

 

[Goran]

I had a drone layer once and the bees tried to make q cell out of it. The 'Kingcup', I don't know what else it would be called, grew to quite a size, but bent and misshapen

I tore it down and dealt with the laying worker(s). I do have an old photo, but I will have to get help to show me how to attach it to this forum

I placed one picture in photo albums of this forum. Also interesting for me is as I read ( and also told by other beekeepers) they try to make queen cell even above cell with pollen..

 

[keith pierce]

this is what happens when they feed a drone royal jelly. They seal the cell, but the larva never goes into pupation, but died and goes into mush

 

[keith pierce]

drone larva turned into queen cell



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[Norton]

King woofter.

 

[Luminos]

King woofter.

 

[For want of a better word]

Royal jelly will not change the genetics of a drone... it is a flying sperm in reality... Gamete if you must....

 

[keith pierce]

King woofter.

I don't get the joke

 

[REDWOOD]

woofter is a slang word for a certain gender