A Method for Evaluating Honey Bee Flight Activity at the Hive Entrance1
- 1 February 1967
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Journal of Economic Entomology
- Vol. 60 (1) , 102-105
- https://doi.org/10.1093/jee/60.1.102
Abstract
The significance of flight activity of honey bees, Apis mellifera L., is reviewed, and the unique problems of evaluating colony flight are analyzed. A method is described that permits rapid and convenient determination of outgoing flight of bees at the colony entrance. A screen-wire cone is placed over the colony entrance during brief sampling periods, usually 30 seconds. Outgoing foragers, thus partitioned from incoming foragers, escape through the tip of the cone where they can be counted conveniently. Flight from approximately 15–30 colonies can be sampled frequently by a single observer; extensive flight data permit critical comparison of flight between apiaries. The possible applications are explored.This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: