Fair enough Jack, just trying to help.
That situation has been well experimented with over the years.
“I” got the worlds smallest swarm only a few weeks ago. Now it’s bursting with bees in someones flow hive.
Looking for more information on Fibonacci and drone genetics (and the quote you wondered about), I came across this:
http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/Publications/fibonacci.pdf
(I especially enjoyed some of Aristotle’s speculations 
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And it looks quite likely that even if Fibonacci didn’t say that, he could have.
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Um- you sure that link is what you thought it was? If it is: consider me perplexed
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Yeah, that makes two of us.
I ended up googling Aristotle and bees and it was interesting. He got a lot right- but called queens ‘king bees’- love that the ancients theorised that baby bees were collected by adult bees from flowers!
https://www.agriculture.purdue.edu/agcomm/newscolumns/archives/osl/2000/september/091400osl.html
No worries Jeff- I combined them today and it worked out perfect- one had 2 frames worked on- the other 3 so they went down to one 5 frame Nuc.
Couldn’t see the ‘king bee’ (queen) in the colony that’s supposed to have one- could be she’s a virgin and was off on a flight. No sign she is laying… They have a frame of brood that was eggs a few days ago- there are larvae now but no queen cells so I hope there is one there… if not more brood in 10 days. There are enough bees now that I think they’ll be able to make a go of it.
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@Semaphore and @JeffH whoops, def not the right link! Sorry about that. (I know kids and teachers there)
I have fixed the link.
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As far as I can tell, the first person to ever write about drones having no fathers (parthenogenesis) was Jan Dzierzon published in 1835. A mere 182 years ago.