Hi,

Allen wrote:

> We simply do not know.  I think what we really need is results from
> research where known emergency queens raised under good conditions are
> dissected and their degree of development and caste is measured.  I
> suspect that such research exists and I had thought that by now, Larry or
> some other person who has worked with these things intimately might have
> jumped in and settled the matter once and for all.  I hope to get around
> to doing a search through the IBRA one of these days if no one can cite
> such studies.

Quoted in 'The Biology of the Honey Bee' by Mark L. Winston,
(Source: Woyke,  1971,  as interpreted by Michener,  1974.)

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Mean characteristics of honey bee queens produced by transferring
eggs or larvae from worker cells to queen cells at various stages.

Stage    Weight mg  No. Ovarioles  Spm Dia mm  Spm Vol mm3

Egg       209            317                1.31               1.18

1 Day    189            308                1.28               1.09

2 Days  172            292                1.21               0.94

3 Days  147            272                1.16               0.82

4 Days  119            224                1.03               0.59

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'The Biology of the Honey Bee' is a fine book.

Joe