dony Melathopoulos:
>
>Tanya Pankiw, whose now doing her postdoc in Arizona, looked at the
>herdibility of the workers response to the queen.  She was able to
>establish two lines of workers, one with very low response, and one with
>very high response by a selective breeding program.  She got differences
>very quickly, suggesting the trait is highly heritable.  She's got a
>stack of papers currently in press.  One available paper which may interest
>you is Pankiw et al. 1993 Variation in Worker Response to Honey Bee Queen
>Mandibular Pheromone. J. Insect Behavior. 7(1):1-15.
>
Do you know if QMP can be used  to shift the workers into pollen collection
over nectar collection?
Kim
Kim Patten
Washington State University Long Beach Research and Extension Unit
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