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So i let this guy put some splits, 3 frame nucs, in my bee yard. First he brings some in early march, too cold. Then he brings 5 more but with mostly drone comb. Of the 8 nucs he set up i do not think he even got 1 mated queen. I opened a few of his nucs and i could not believe my eyes! There was as many drones as there should bee workers! Hundreds of them, maybe 7% workers. The really weird thing is that the drones were walking around like they were workers! Unless this guy has found a way to get drones to feed larvae then those queens are doomed. I had to have the cops run him off when i caught him at my place when I got home and he had my bee boxes in the back of his truck so we are not on speaking terms. Has any one out there ever heard of drones doing a workers job? The curiosity is killing me How this will play out. Jim