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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