Increased Mass-Rearing of Queens in High Royal-Jelly-Producing Honey Bee Colonies (<i>Apis mellifera ligustica</i>) Generates Smaller Queens with Comparable Fecundity

Increased Mass-Rearing of Queens in High Royal-Jelly-Producing Honey Bee Colonies (<i>Apis mellifera ligustica</i>) Generates Smaller Queens with Comparable Fecundity

The mass rearing of high-quality queen bees is an essential beekeeping practice for producing new queens to maintain colony productivity. A strain of high royal-jelly-producing bees (RJBs; <i>Apis mellifera ligustica</i>) in China exhibits high potential for the rapid mass rearing of que...

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Main Authors: Buajiram Ahmat, Ting Yang, Chuan Ma, Cheng Zong
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2024-02-01
Series:Agriculture
Subjects:
queen cell number
queen quality
queen rearing
royal jelly
ovariole number
fecundity
Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2077-0472/14/2/264

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