Читать книгу Honey Bee Medicine for the Veterinary Practitioner - Группа авторов - Страница 124

1 * All photographs were taken by the Author.

2 1 For example, the way that queens are mass reared is by placing 50 transferred worker larvae to a queenless group of nurse bees that were producing only “worker” jelly. It is difficult to understand how they could immediately shift to producing a jelly made up of components unique to “royal” jelly. And there is no evidence that nurse bees intentionally feed pollen to worker larvae, it more likely being an inadvertent contaminant from their mouthparts (Simpson 1955).

3 2 The author, unpublished; if any pollen is accidentally consumed, it passes through the gut undigested.

4 3 Miticide residues in her developmental cell may later affect queen performance (Rangel and Tarpy 2016).

5 4 Other than when you need to prevent a colony from replacing an instrumentally‐inseminated breeder queen.

6 5 There is strong evolutionary pressure for a queen to eliminate genetic competition from her sisters. There wouldn't be such pressure for a daughter to eliminate her mother, or vice versa.