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"Mary Fisher" writes:
| "graham" wrote in message
| news:HVh0j.9733$PE.1444@pd7urf1no...
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| I supposed if one called them pets, and named each one Eric, one could get
| around the by-law{;-)
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| To be accurate you'd have to call (most of them) Ethel. All the workers are
| females, there are very few males (drones) and the queen isn't one. As you
| must know .

The workers are more like freemartins than functional females, though.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.