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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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Cryptic "royal" subfamilies in honey bee (Apis mellifera) colonies. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2018 During emergency queen rearing, worker honey bees (Apis mellifera) select several otherwise worker-destined larvae to instead rear as candidates to replace their dead or failing queen.
James M Withrow, David R Tarpy
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Insects, 2021 Honey bee colonies have a yearly cycle that is supported nutritionally by the seasonal progression of flowering plants. In the spring, colonies grow by rearing brood, but in the fall, brood rearing declines in preparation for overwintering.
Gloria DeGrandi-Hoffman +9 more
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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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Colony and individual life-history responses to temperature in a social insect pollinator [PDF]
, 2015 Pollinating insects are of major ecological and commercial importance, yet they may be facing ecological disruption from a changing climate. Despite this threat, few studies have investigated the life-history responses of pollinators to experimentally ...
Bourke, Andrew F. G., Holland, Jacob G.
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Comparative evaluation of Doolittle, Cupkit and Karl Jenter techniques for rearing Apis mellifera Linnaeus queen bees during breeding season [PDF]
, 2017 Comparative evaluation of Doolittle, Karl Jenter and Cupkit techniques of Apis mellifera Linnaeus queen bee rearing was done during spring (mid February- mid April 2013) breeding season. The highest acceptance of cell cups (66.00 %), queen cells raising (
Chhuneja, Pardeep K. +2 more
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Queen control of a key life-history event in a eusocial insect [PDF]
, 2013 In eusocial insects, inclusive fitness theory predicts potential queen–worker conflict over the timing of events in colony life history. Whether queens or workers control the timing of these events is poorly understood.
Andrew F. G. Bourke +5 more
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Reproductive Potential Accelerates Preimaginal Development of Rebel Workers in Apis mellifera
Animals, 2021 Rebel workers develop from eggs laid by the previous queen, before it went swarming and left the colony orphaned, until the emergence of a new queen. In contrast to normal workers developing in the queen’s presence, rebels are set to reproduce and avoid ...
Aneta Strachecka +4 more
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Multifunctional queen pheromone and maintenance of reproductive harmony in termite colonies. [PDF]
, 2012 Pheromones are likely involved in all social activities of social insects including foraging, sexual behavior, defense, nestmate recognition, and caste regulation. Regulation of the number of fertile queens requires communication between reproductive and
Matsuura, Kenji
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Optimizing Laboratory Rearing of a Key Pollinator, Bombus impatiens
Insects, 2021 Bumble bees are key pollinators for wild and managed plants and serve as a model system in various research fields, largely due to their commercial availability.
Erin Treanore +7 more
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