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In a message dated 28/12/2006 14:54:50 GMT Standard Time, [log in to unmask]
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I 'd like to know if is there any information or experiment made to
know how could we find the mating places, distances, from the apiaries,
the queen find it for the feromones I know, but how could we find the
mating places
The best reference that I know is 'The Honeybees of the British Isles' by
Beowulf Cooper. He describes the conditions he found in drone congregation
areas. Minor local assemblies may be formed where there are 'bubbles' of warmer
air. Major, distant, assemblies are formed by the interaction of wind and
topography producing a vortex of twisting rising air.
Cooper was concerned chiefly with Apis mellifera mellifera. I imagine your
bees may predominantly be A m ligustica and it is possible that their habits
may differ slightly.
Chile being the shape it is there must be a very wide variation of local
climates and in the cooler parts your bees may behave as Cooper describes.
Chris
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