Hi Joe & All,

http://www.draperbee.com/info/royaljelly.htm

> Refrence from drapers,,,  If young worker larvae are
fed the same royal jelly for 2 to 3 days.
Why would an emergency queen reared from a 3 day old
larvae necessarily produce a poor quality
queen?,,,where is the harm at?
>

Your reference does not go into the fact that it is the quantity fed during
these two or three days and the remainder of the larvae stage that makes the
difference between a poor queen and a quality queen. When workers begin to
feed Larvae that they intend to develop into queens they feed them royal
jelly lavishly. Larvae not fed lavishly that were intended to develop into a
worker may develop into a poor queen once emergency queen development
begins. Chances are an emergency queen can be quality, good, or poor. For
"Better Queens" the larvae must be fed lavishly from the very start of its
hatching from the egg. There is no real harm in an emergency queen unless
you wind up with only a good or poor queen out of the deal made with the
bees.

Here is some reference for all needing such but let it be known there are
old books that could also be refernced like "Better Queens" by Jay Smith.
http://health.indiatimes.com/articleshow/14245426.cms
><""""Royal Jelly is produced by the 'Worker Bee' from its pharyngeal glands
to feed the larva. When fed lavishly to a larva, it hatches as a Queen Bee.
This food enables a mature Queen Bee to lay eggs weighing more than her own
weight in a single day. "All these observations show that the substance is
capable of producing tremendous physiological activity.""""><
http://www.goldenblossomhoney.com/honeybee.html
><""""The queen bee is a very unique animal. She has 2 main functions in the
colony. She lays all of the eggs for the entire hive and she maintains the
social order of the community (through certain secretions produced from
glands in her body). Biologists point to the queen bee as a remarkable
example of how food can affect animal development since the worker bee and
the queen bee come from the same egg. The simple fact that the queen bee is
fed lavishly results in numerous anatomical differences between she and the
worker. The most important difference is in their reproductive systems.
Worker bees cannot mate, while queen bees are specially equipped to mate and
can also store sperm for long periods of time - even years.""""><

 . ..   Keith Malone, Chugiak, Alaska USA, http://www.cer.org/,
c(((([ , Apiarian, http://takeoff.to/alaskahoney/,
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/akbeekeepers/ ,
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Norlandbeekeepers/ ,
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ApiarianBreedersGuild/

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