Influence of Hive-Space Restriction on the Tendency of Honeybee Colonies to Rear Queens
- 1 January 1973
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Apicultural Research
- Vol. 12 (3) , 183-186
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00218839.1973.11099747
Abstract
Experiments with two groups of 10 honeybee colonies are described. They show that, although restriction of total hive space to 37 litres caused little if any restriction of space for brood or food, it nevertheless resulted in an increase in the number of occupied queen cells (including sealed cells) in the colony, and increased the chance of queens being reared to maturity.Keywords
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