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Queen Quality and the Impact of Honey Bee Diseases on Queen Health: Potential for Interactions between Two Major Threats to Colony Health [PDF]
Insects, 2017 Western honey bees, Apis mellifera, live in highly eusocial colonies that are each typically headed by a single queen. The queen is the sole reproductive female in a healthy colony, and because long-term colony survival depends on her ability to produce ...
Esmaeil Amiri +2 more
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Is the Brood Pattern within a Honey Bee Colony a Reliable Indicator of Queen Quality? [PDF]
Insects, 2019 Failure of the queen is often identified as a leading cause of honey bee colony mortality. However, the factors that can contribute to “queen failure” are poorly defined and often misunderstood.
Michael Goblirsch +2 more
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Effect of queen cell numbers on royal jelly production and quality
Current Research in Food Science, 2022 Royal jelly (RJ) is a popular functional food with a wealth of health-promoting effects. Over 90% of the global RJ is produced in China mainly by a high RJ-producing honeybee (RJB) strain that can accept and feed a great number of queen larvae for RJ ...
Jianke Li
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High-Quality Queens Produce High-Quality Offspring Queens
Insects, 2022 Honey bees, rather than rear queens with eggs and larvae from worker cells, prefer to rear new queens with eggs form queen cells, if available. This may be a result of long-term evolutionary process for honey bee colonies. However, the exact mechanism of
Longtao Yu +5 more
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Factors Affecting Queen Bee Quality
Turkish Journal of Agriculture: Food Science and Technology, 2020 The basic rule in honeybee (Apis mellifera L.) rearing is to work with qualified queens. Quality queen means strong and healthy colonies. Honey bee colonies are a social community, each managed by a single queen bee. The queen bee is the only female that
Mustafa Güneşdoğdu, Ahmet Şekeroğlu
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Italian Journal of Animal Science, 2022 Rearing techniques are important to determine a successful honey bee production. Queen cell cup size may affect the acceptance rate of grafted larvae and queen’s size, which in turn may influence the quality of the colonies.
Silvana Mattiello +2 more
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Gut microbiota-driven regulation of queen bee ovarian metabolism
Microbiology Spectrum, 2023 With the global prevalence of Varroa mites, more and more beekeepers resort to confining the queen bee in a queen cage to control mite infestation or to breed superior and robust queen bees.
Wanli Li, jun guo
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Honey bee maternal effects improve worker performance and reproductive ability in offspring
Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, 2023 Maternal effects are an evolutionary strategy used to improve offspring quality. In an example of maternal effects in honey bees (Apis mellifera), mother queens produce larger eggs in queen cells than in worker cells in order to breed better daughter ...
Longtao Yu +10 more
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Honey Bee (Apis mellifera) Queen Reproductive Potential Affects Queen Mandibular Gland Pheromone Composition and Worker Retinue Response. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2016 Reproductive division of labor is one of the defining traits of honey bees (Apis mellifera), with non-reproductive tasks being performed by workers while a single queen normally monopolizes reproduction.
Juliana Rangel +3 more
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Jurnal Ilmu-Ilmu Peternakan, 2021 Queen bees are castes in the colony tasked with producing eggs to survive a bee colony. The Queen is the only one tail in the colony and can produce eggs to be a prospective queen bee, worker and stud.
Sri Minarti, Puji Akhiroh
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