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Exploring the Strength Impact of Starter-Finisher Orphan Colonies and Rearing Season on Some Economic Characteristics of the Produced Queens in the Middle Delta Region, Egypt [PDF]

Journal of Plant Protection and Pathology
This study aimed to explore the effect of two worker’s population densities on the basic of comb number covered with bees (8 combs as high density and 5 combs as low density) within starter - finisher queen-less rearing colonies on the larval graft ...
M. A. Abd Al-Fattah, A. A. Ghanim, H. M. Fathy, A. A. Eissa, Mohamed Ali   +4 more
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The Importance of Time and Place: Nutrient Composition and Utilization of Seasonal Pollens by European Honey Bees (Apis mellifera L.)

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, Vanessa Corby-Harris, Mark Carroll, Amy L. Toth, Stephanie Gage, Emily Watkins deJong, Henry Graham, Mona Chambers, Charlotte Meador, Bethany Obernesser   +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, Xinxin Shi, Xujiang He, Zhijiang Zeng, Weiyu Yan, Xiaobo Wu   +5 more
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Effects of Queen Cell Size and Caging Days of Mother Queen on Rearing Young Honey Bee Queens Apis mellifera L.

Journal of Apicultural Science, 2018
This study aims to investigate the effect of queen cell size (9.4 mm, 9.6 mm, 9.8 mm and 10.0 mm) and mother queen caged time (0 day, 2 days and 4 days) on rearing young queens without grafting larvae.
Wu Xiaobo, Zhou Linbin, Zou Chuibin, Zeng Zhijiang   +3 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, Krzysztof Olszewski, Karolina Kuszewska, Jerzy Paleolog, Michał Woyciechowski   +4 more
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INCUBATION METHOD OF HONEYBEE QUEEN CELLS IN INCUBATOR AFTER QUEEN CELLS SEALING DIRECTLY. [PDF]

Journal of Plant Protection and Pathology, 2015
This study was carried out to evaluate the following aims : 1 - What honeybee workers do to queen cells ready to successful caging, comparison between caging queen cells inside the normal cage and queen-excluder-cage, after sealing directly, in the ...
A. Zohairy
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Beeswax-Based Tools for Queen Rearing Without Grafting Larvae for Apis mellifera

Agriculture
Queen bees form the core of honeybee colonies for reproduction, and their quality is the most critical factor affecting their reproductive and productive performance.
Gao Zhang, Weiyu Yan, Zhijiang Zeng, Xiaobo Wu   +3 more
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Effects of Queen Rearing Technology of Apis cerana by Cutting Comb on Reproductive Capacity and Productive Performance

Agriculture
The queen, as the reproductive core of a honeybee colony, has declining reproductive capacity with age, making it necessary to rear new queens to replace older ones.
Yueyang Hu, Fangming Lu, Shuyun Li, Qizhong Pan, Yuyang Jiao, Yutong Jiang, Xiaobo Wu   +6 more
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Current knowledge about behaviors of honey bee queens with highlighting of the importance future studies

Journal of Basic and Applied Zoology, 2021
Background There is one queen in each honey bee, Apis mellifera L., colony under normal conditions. This queen performs egg laying and pheromonal control in the colony. All genetic characteristics of bee workers and drones depend on the queen.
Hossam F. Abou-Shaara, Nuru Adgaba, Ahmad A. Al-Ghamdi   +2 more
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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, Katherine Barie, Nathan Derstine, Kaitlin Gadebusch, Margarita Orlova, Monique Porter, Frederick Purnell, Etya Amsalem   +7 more
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