Instrumental insemination, a reliable method to control honey bee mating, is an essential
tool for research and stock improvement. A review of studies compare colony performance of …

Honey bee queen serves as a colony's centre hub, producing eggs and releasing
pheromones to keep a colony together. Artificial insemination in Apis mellifera, trending …

Fifty queens weighed at emergence were allocated into three groups as: light (under 190
mg); moderate (between 190–200 mg); heavy (over 200 mg), and introduced into Kirchainer …

Honey bees are eusocial insects. As such, they have “a reproductive division of labor in the
colony, that is, a worker caste cares for the young of the reproductive caste.” Also,“there is an …

The number of days from emergence to the onset of oviposition in 7 groups of queens was
as follows: naturally mated queens, 10· 33±0· 68; free-flying queens treated with CO2, 11 …

Sister queen honeybees (Apis mellifera), 59 instrumentally inseminated (IIS) and 59
naturally mated (NM), were produced in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and put into field colonies …

Drones reared in queenright colonies (QRC), in drone combs (DC) and in laying worker
colonies (LWC) both in worker combs (WC) and in DC were compared with respect to their …

Egg-laying rates of queen honey bees, Apis mellifera L., were measured in colonies
containing no brood and ca. 3,000 or 12,000 worker bees. Naturally mated queens were …

The onset of oviposition of 1396 queens reared in two years in the Peace River region of
Alberta, Canada, ranged from 4 to 22 days after emergence, with a mean of 10· 6±0· 1 days …

Queen honeybees of Apis mellifera ligustica and Apis mellifera syriaca were raised to
investigate physiological and reproductive characteristics and to determine the most suitable …