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Hi
Two days ago (June 18th) I looked into a 5 frame nucleus colony
into which I had put a queen cell on 24th May. The queen was
running about on the first frame I pulled out, but was off it by the
time I had it fully out. I subsequently found her lying on the
floor of the box, apparently undamaged but unmoving. On
closer examination her antennae were twitching a little but there
was no other movement. She had clearly been mated OK as
there were three frames of brood in all stages. I left the queen on
a top bar, and came back today (20th June) with a further queen
cell for the colony. I found the original queen marching round
on a frame, apparently undamaged.
On the grounds that there is nothing new in beekeeping, does
anyone have a reference to this behaviour? I half recollect
mention of apparent catalepsy as a defensive act by insects, but I
cannot recall where.
Regards
Mike Rowbottom
HARROGATE
North Yorks
UK
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