Unanswered questions about bees??

[BobMac]

Just my first year keeping bee's,always amazed to see them wash boarding.
Looks the cleaning (wax on wax off) or dancing to some Elvis tunes, maybe
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[yes2matt]

@Acebird

While yes I realize there is such an extreme extend to the collective knowledge bank of bees (in particular) I don't intend to learn everything about them in all aspects and absorb centuries of knowledge in just 1 year. I intend to study a specific question about bees and learn as much as needed to help answer that question. What I meant by controlled environment was a relatively event-less environment that I wouldn't have to factor in additional variables besides what is relevant to my question.

Drone congregation areas. Are they static year after year? If so, what makes a good DCA, and how do they find it? How does the Q find it? If the DCAs move year to year, it's even more mysterious, how do drones from multiple hives "decide" to congregate here? How do the virgin Qs get invited?

[Acebird]

Have you ever been in a bar when in comes this beautiful woman ans struts across the room in 6 in heals?  There is an immediate spike in testosterone and the stallions jump off their chair.  Picture a sweet smelling virgin sailing across the sky over a DCA area.  It is game on and every drone for himself.  I think if the location of hives change then the location of the DCA areas will change also.

[Michael Bush]

>Drone congregation areas. Are they static year after year?

If the lay of the land doesn't chance, yes.  They follow tree rows and roads.

>If so, what makes a good DCA, and how do they find it?

At the intersection of two tree rows and by pheromones.

>How does the Q find it?

By the lay of the land and by pheromones.

> If the DCAs move year to year, it's even more mysterious, how do drones from multiple hives "decide" to congregate here?

They follow the tree rows and they pick an open space where two of those intersect.

> How do the virgin Qs get invited?

Pheromones and the obvious path they follow.