Selective Rearing of Queens by Worker Honey Bees: Kin or Nestmate Recognition
- 1 September 1984
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Annals of the Entomological Society of America
- Vol. 77 (5) , 578-580
- https://doi.org/10.1093/aesa/77.5.578
Abstract
Honey bees have the ability to distinguish among groups of larvae that are destined to become queens and preferentially rear highly related nestmate larvae over less related larvae that are not nestmates.This publication has 7 references indexed in Scilit:
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