MORPHOMETRICAL STUDIES ON QUEEN BEES REARED FOR HIGH QUALITY AND QUANTITY [PDF]
Journal of Plant Protection and Pathology, 2007 The present work was carried to study some morphometrical and biological characters affecting of high quality queens. Highest percentages of acceptance, emerged queens, weight of virgin queens, morphometrics of virgin queens and number of ovarioles as ...
M. Ali +2 more
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A NEW DEVICE (HALF-BALL-CAGE WITH QUEEN EXCLUDER ) AND HONEYBEE QUEEN REARING METHOD WITH QUEENRIGHT. [PDF]
Journal of Plant Protection and Pathology, 2007 This work was carried out to study the following aims: (1) Evaluation of a new device ( Half- Ball-Cage with queen excluder) on the acceptance percentage (%) and the weight of emerged virgin queens and produced from the following treatment colonies: a ...
A. Zohairy +3 more
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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 PathologyThis 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 +4 more
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Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2021 Recent work demonstrated that honey bee (Apis mellifera L.) queens reared in pesticide-laden beeswax exhibit significant changes in the composition of the chemicals produced by their mandibular glands including those that comprise queen mandibular ...
Elizabeth M. Walsh +6 more
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Morphometric measurements of Africanized honeybee queens kept in an incubator or in queen banking
Acta Scientiarum: Animal Sciences, 2015 This study aimed to estimate live weight, the length and the width of wing and abdomen and the length, the width and the height of thorax in newly emerged Africanized honeybee queens up to 192 hours and their influence on final quality regarding ...
Flávia Nakayama Metorima +4 more
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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 +3 more
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BIOLOGICAL AND BIOMETRICAL CHARACTERS OF QUEEN ( AP/S MELLIFERA L.) ARTIFICIALLY REARED BY DIFFERENT GRAFTING TECHNIQUES IN NORTH SINAI, EGYPT [PDF]
Journal of Plant Protection and Pathology, 2003 Study was carried out to investigate the effect of worker larval age which used in grafting process and the technique of grafting on some biological and biometricsl characters of queen cells and virgin queens that reared in Al-Arish, North Sinai.
H. Mahfouz +2 more
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Jurnal Entomologi Indonesia, 2015 An experimental study to find out the effect of larval ages to the quality of queens produced through queen-grafting technique has been done in Apis cerana colony. Each of four larval ages(1-4 day-old larvae) was grafted into 5 queen cups in every single
Kuntadi Kuntadi
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SOME MORPHOLOGICAL CHARACTER·S OF QUEEN HONEY BEE Apis mellifera carnica ACCORDING TO DIFFERENT LOCALITIES AND SEASONAL VARIATIONS [PDF]
Journal of Plant Protection and Pathology, 2002 The criteria used throughout the present study were: weight of the queen, length of the abdomen , length and width of the right fore wing, length and width of 3rd and 4th terga , number of ovarioles of the right ovary, diameter and volume of the ...
A. Mohamed, Sawsan Saleh, Madeha Mustafa
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Bumble bee queen production in semi-field studies: assessment of endpoints and challenges
Julius-Kühn-Archiv, 2018 Bumble bees (Bombus terrestris L; Hymenoptera, Apidae) provide important pollination services and are commercially used, e.g. in greenhouse cultures. Consequently, the impacts of pesticides on bumble bees were already tested in the past.
Franke, L. +4 more
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