Effect of queen mandibular pheromone on initiation and maintenance of queen cells in the honey bee (Apis mellifera L)
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| Authors: | Melathopoulos, AP; Winston, ML; Pettis, JS; Pankiw, T |
| Year: | 1996 |
| Journal: | Canadian Entomologist 128: 263-272 |
| Title: | Effect of queen mandibular pheromone on initiation and maintenance of queen cells in the honey bee (Apis mellifera L) |
| Abstract: | Adding queen mandibular pheromone into honey bee colonies earlier than 24 h after queen loss resulted in an inhibition of queen-rearing, but not when added after 4 days. The number of queen cells initiated in each treatment decreased with the addition of the pheromone, although there were no effects on the number of queen cells tom down following pheromone treatment. The effect of adding the pheromone to queenless colonies given newly hatched female larvae under different regimens of queen cell provisioning and cell structure also was investigated, Only colonies in which larvae were presented in unmodified worker comb exhibited significantly lower rates of queen-rearing. Results indicate that queen mandibular pheromone inhibits the initiation of queen-rearing but not the maintenance of established cells. |
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