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Offline Perry

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White eyed Drones
« on: June 04, 2014, 06:01:28 am »
During my recent inspections, I ran acrross a hive that had dozens of these white eyed drones.
I have seen one in one of my own hives, but this was very interesting to see. My first thought was I wonder if they could "see"?

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Re: White eyed Drones
« Reply #1 on: June 04, 2014, 08:42:24 am »
Interesting, I've never seen that.
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Re: White eyed Drones
« Reply #2 on: June 04, 2014, 09:43:14 am »
Zombies!
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Re: White eyed Drones
« Reply #3 on: June 04, 2014, 12:04:34 pm »
Thanks for the link Perry.  Interesting about the recessive genes such as a morph between drone and worker!  ???
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Re: White eyed Drones
« Reply #4 on: June 04, 2014, 01:00:47 pm »
Keith - Zombies!

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Re: White eyed Drones
« Reply #5 on: June 04, 2014, 01:35:37 pm »
Haploid drones seen them before weird aren't they.

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Re: White eyed Drones
« Reply #6 on: June 04, 2014, 01:52:20 pm »
being blind you would think those genes would eventually get weeded out of the gene pool..   I have not seen this either. Interesting read. Thanks Perry!
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