The influence of a colony's queen state on the drifting of drone honey bees (Apis mellifera L)

Abstract

A higher proportion of drones drifted to colonies with caged-virgin queens or to colonies with lures containing a component of the virgin queen's pheromone than to either queenless colonies, queenright colonies or colonies with caged-mated queens. The proportion of drones that drifted to colonies containing virgin queens increased with age of the drone. -from Authors