Worker regulation of emergency queen rearing in honey bee ...

The results suggest that workers regulate the queen rearing process by differentially constructing cells. Workers built different numbers of queens cells from ...

(PDF) Worker regulation of emergency queen rearing in honey bee ...

In the polyandrous honey bee, Apis mellifera, workers can potentially increase their inclusive fitness by rearing full-sister queens. If the mother queen dies ...

Emergency queen rearing in honeybee colonies with ... - Apidologie

... worker behaviour on the timing of emergence of honey bee queens, Insectes Soc. 34, 181-193. Hatch S., Tarpy D.R., Fletcher D.J.C. (1999) Worker regulation ...

The bees know best - The Apiarist

Hatch, S., Tarpy, D. & Fletcher, D. Worker regulation of emergency queen rearing in honey bee colonies and the resultant variation in queen ...

The Colony and Its Organization - Mid-Atlantic Apiculture Research ...

... rearing. Each member has a ... bees select younger worker larvae to produce emergency queens. ... Honey bee eggs are normally laid one per cell by the queen.

(PDF) Emergency queen rearing in honeybee colonies with brood of ...

In four honeybee colonies, queens were isolated on empty combs for 8 consecutive days, so that in every colony there were 8 combs containing brood of known ...

The Honey Bee Colony's Criterion for Candidate Selection - NCBI

In the honey bee, the queen's death severely threatens the survival of the colony. In an emergency, new queens are reared from young worker ...

A Closer Look | Bee Culture

Honey bee queens are reared under three situations: emergency queen replacement (when the queen is lost or dies suddenly), supersedure (when the ...

Kin Recognition during Emergency Queen Rearing by Worker ...

Worker honey bees, Apis mellifera L., discriminate among larval phenotypes during emergency queen rearing. We present data from one experiment that suggest ...

Emergency queen rearing in honeybee colonies with brood of ... - HAL

The destruction of capped queen cells can be carried out by both workers and newly emerged queens (Allen, 1956; Fletcher, 1978; Caron and. Greve ...

How Long Can a Honeybee Colony Live When a Queen Dies?

In response to the queen's demise, the worker bees initiate the emergency queen rearing process. They select a few worker bee larvae ...

Queen rearing miscellany - The Apiarist

Over millennia many factors have resulted in the evolution of the worker selection of developing queens, but over a few 'honey bee generations' ...

Raising Quality Queen Bees - MP518

The schedule of tasks for rearing queen bees is based on the natural development cycle of honey bee queens.This process cannot be sped up, slowed down or ...

The mechanism of queen elimination in two-queen honey bee (Apis ...

... queen honey bee colonies after removal of queen ... Worker regulation of emergency queen rearing in honey bee colonies and the resultant variation in queen ...

Standard methods for rearing and selection of Apis mellifera queens ...

Sometimes the workers bees will chew the comb around the edge of a push-in cage and may release the queen within two days. If a breeder colony is to be used for ...

Penn State Pollinator Webinar Series: Queen rearing basics (Kate ...

These large colonies can increase pollination and produce excess honey. With a good queen, a colony can meet its full potential. More ...

The influence of queen age and quality during queen replacement ...

Worker regulation of emergency queen rearing in honey bee colonies and the resultant variation in queen quality. Insectes Sociaux, 46 (1999), pp. 372-377.

Honey bee maternal effects improve worker performance and ...

... rearing of queens and involves transplanting young worker larvae. ... Worker regulation of emergency queen rearing in honey bee colonies and the resultant ...

Honey bee (Apis cerana) queen rearing methods influence queen ...

Hatch S, Tarpy D, Fletcher DJC (1999) Worker regulation of emergency queen rearing in honey bee colonies and the resultant variation in queen ...

Turning workers into false queens: the role of exogenous ...

Using cage experiments, we have shown that synthetic QMPs can elicit the production of MDG pheromones in worker bees and increase or initiate ...