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Subject:
More on queen confinement by workers
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Peter Loring Borst <[log in to unmask]>
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Informed Discussion of Beekeeping Issues and Bee Biology <[log in to unmask]>
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Sun, 12 Aug 2012 12:41:06 +0000
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Confined queens took as much as 30 hr to cut round their
cappings and up to 4 days to emerge ; they were
fed while, as well as after, they cut their cappings.

Out of twelve caged queen cells in an
observation hive, three queens emerged within
2 hr of beginning to cut round their cell caps

QUEEN CONFINEMENT, QUEEN PIPING AND SWARMING IN APIS MELLIFERA COLONIES
BY J. SIMPSON & SARAH M. CHERRY.  Anim . Behav., 1969, 17, 2 7 1-278

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