The Drone Population of Natural Honeybee Swarms
- 1 January 1977
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Apicultural Research
- Vol. 16 (3) , 145-149
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00218839.1977.11099876
Abstract
Summary The drones and queens in 59 swarms were counted, and the total number of bees estimated by weight. Ranges and mean values were: bees 1750to50 750 (mean 14 100), drones 0 to 1001 (mean 151, 1·06% of total). Swarms had 1, 2 or 3 queens. For 16 swarms whose time of emergence was known, swarms issuing between 9 h and 13.30 h contained as many or more drones than swarms issuing later in the afternoon.This publication has 6 references indexed in Scilit:
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