The Rate of Depletion of Spermatozoa in the Queen Honeybee Spermatheca
- 1 January 1979
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Apicultural Research
- Vol. 18 (3) , 204-207
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00218839.1979.11099969
Abstract
Summary Fourteen uniformly inseminated hybrid queens were randomly divided into three groups. Spermatozoa in the Spermatozoa of the first group were counted before egg laying began (5.00 ± 0.26 (SE) million). Queens of the second group laid about 63 000, and of the third group about 123 000, eggs before spermatozoa in the spermathecae were counted (3.25 ± 0.06, 2.49 ± 0.18, respectively). The queens used half their spermatozoa between 16 June and mid-November—about half the egg-laying season in Louisiana. The data were negatively correlated with the predicted logarithmic loss of spermatozoa from the spermatheca (r = −0.94).This publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit:
- The Presence of Spermatozoa in Eggs as Proof that Drones can Develop from Inseminated Eggs of the HoneybeeJournal of Apicultural Research, 1966