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Date: | Mon, 27 May 1996 10:14:29 -0700 |
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Regarding the new appearance of a queen in an otherwise
queenless/eggless colony.
There's an American Bee Research Conference abstract in December (93 -
95 issue of ABJ of observations made by Tibor Szabo. Having all queens
identified with numbered discs, he was able to document the movement of
several queens from one hive to another, and was able to directly
observe movement of a queen with a small group of bees. Queenless hives
were more attractive, I think.
A personal observation regarding egg movement.
We were once installing packages, with the intent of replacing the
queens within a few days. We therefore left the queens in their cages
with corks in place. When we came to remove the queen cages, at least 2
of 30 or so queens had eggs on the cage screen. I remember seeing one
that had about half a dozen eggs in the screen. Some of the eggs had
been placed into cells in the comb, within about 1 cm of the cage, and
were being reared (there had been no queen in the equipment prior to the
package).
The observation isn't absolute, since we didn't follow the larvae to be
sure that they were not from laying workers on the outside of the cage,
but that would be very strange behavior, while there was a queen
present.
Kerry Clark, Apiculture Specialist
B.C. Ministry of Agriculture
1201 103 Ave
Dawson Creek B.C.
V1G 4J2 CANADA Tel (604) 784-2225 fax (604) 784-2299
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