Drifting of honey bee queens returning from flights

Gąbka, Jakub

doi:10.1080/00218839.2018.1492502

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“…The success of insemination in queen honey bee was based upon the survivorship to production of worker brood. The naturally mated queens were missing for a variety of reasons while they flied out of their hive to take orientation and mating flight (Ruttner et al, 1972;Woyke, 1975;Gabka, 2018). Our findings showed that A. cerana queen losses during the flights (i.e., 37.5% queen loss) were in line with previous reports found in A. mellifera that naturally mated queen lost about 18-40% (Palmer and Oldroyd, 2000;Medina and Goncalves, 2001;Gabka, 2018).…”

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“…The naturally mated queens were missing for a variety of reasons while they flied out of their hive to take orientation and mating flight (Ruttner et al, 1972;Woyke, 1975;Gabka, 2018). Our findings showed that A. cerana queen losses during the flights (i.e., 37.5% queen loss) were in line with previous reports found in A. mellifera that naturally mated queen lost about 18-40% (Palmer and Oldroyd, 2000;Medina and Goncalves, 2001;Gabka, 2018). Instrumentally inseminated queen mainly died because of injury or infection from the insemination process, or sperm residue in the oviducts (Harbo and Szabo, 1984;Collins, 2000;Chuda-Mickiewicz et al, 2009;Gerula et al, 2016).…”

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Impact of Confinement and Population Size on the Instrumentally Inseminated Queen’s Performance of Apis cerana Species in South Korea

Vung¹,

Kim²,

Lee³

et al. 2018

apiculture

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251Instrumental insemination of honey bee is an attractive alternative to natural mating in breeding program as it allows mating crosses between desirable queen and specific drone. However, nursery condition that the queen is kept before and after insemination is major factor affected to the performance of instrumentally inseminated queen. In this study, we evaluated the influences of three different nursery-conditions of push-in cages, mini nuclei and normal colonies on number of spermatozoa stored in the spermatheca, body weight, onset of ovipositon and performance of instrumentally inseminated Apis cerana queen. Our results demonstrated that instrumentally inseminated queens kept in mini nuclei and in normal hives showed no significant difference in queen's weight (159.8 and 166.2mg, respectively), number of spermatozoa in spermatheca (2.02 10 6 and 2.76 10 6 , respectively), proportion of queen supersedure (33.3 and 66.7% queen survival at 11 months after oviposition, respectively) and brood production, compared to naturally mated queens. In contrast, instrumentally inseminated queens kept in push-in cages showed significant difference of those above data in comparison to queens mated naturally. Our results suggested that instrumentally inseminated queens could be kept in mini nuclei containing about 1.000 attendant bees to have desirable performance of queen whereas the push-in method should be practiced for the purpose of using queen in the length of time less than 7 months. Apiculture 33(4) : 251~260 (2018) Abstract Journal of

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Impact of Confinement and Population Size on the Instrumentally Inseminated Queen’s Performance of Apis cerana Species in South Korea

Vung¹,

Kim²,

Lee³

et al. 2018

apiculture

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“…Male bees represent an important part of the mite-bee' interaction, given that they often drift to other, non-maternal colonies and may spread the mite among them (Neumann et al, 2000;Paar et al, 2002;Abrol, 2012;Gąbka, 2018). In addition, drones and queens from different colonies meet during the spring and summer at mating areas that persist through the years, called Drone Congregation Areas (DCAs) (Zmarlicki and Morse, 1963;Ruttner, 1966).…”

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Varroa destructor Parasitism and Genetic Variability at Honey Bee (Apis mellifera) Drone Congregation Areas and Their Associations With Environmental Variables in Argentina

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“…It is difficult to indicate the exact causes of queens' losses, but balling is one of them. Also losses of the queens in commercial apiaries widely ranges between 3 to over 90% (Skowronek,1976;Al-Ghzawi & Zaitoun, 2008;Woyke, Fliszkiewicz, & Jasiński, 2001;Schlüns et al, 2005;Heidinger et al, 2014;Czekońska, 2000;Al-Ghzawi & Zaitoun, 2008;Gąbka, 2018). In most conditions, queens are recognized by worker bees for their pheromones produced mainly in the mandibular gland.…”

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“…When the hovering queens landed at the entrance, they were balled by the workers. On the other hand, queens' losses may be higher if beehives are close together as a result of drifting (Gąbka, 2018). The aim of the study was to investigate the phenomenon of balling queens after a mating flight by workers from the mating colonies, which had been created for the time of mating, and evaluate its significance in queen production.…”

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Balling Behavior of Workers Toward Honey Bee Queens Returning from Mating Flights

Gerula

Panasiuk

Bieńkowska

et al. 2018

Journal of Apicultural Science

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During natural mating honeybee queens can get lost due to drifting, predators or other cases. In this work, the balling of queens returning from flights by worker bees originating from the same colony was observed. Three subspecies of bees Carniolan, Caucasian and European Black Bee were tested. Research was conducted in both spring and summer, but in the former in newly created colonies, while in the latter in new and earlier used ones. Generally 15.2% of queens were balled and in total 30.2% of queens were lost during mating flights. 269 queens performed 785 mating flights, and 5.2% of those finished with balling. Three times more queens were balled when returning from mating flight rather than orientation flight. Subspecies matches or mismatches of queens and workers in nucleuses did not significantly affect the balling or its frequency. Additionally, no bee subspecies characterized stronger tendencies to ball a queen. Worker bees from newly created nucleuses treated queens similarly to the ones in nucleuses earlier used. However, significantly more queens had been balled during the spring in comparison to summer. There were days with higher balling of queens. During some days the weather was very unstable and unpredictable with such anomalies as heat waves, thunderstorms or sudden drops in insolation. Most of the queens were balled at the entrance while returning from flight and only a few inside the hive. In the research, clear causes of balling were not found, but some factors can be excluded.

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Drifting of honey bee queens returning from flights

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References 26 publications

Impact of Confinement and Population Size on the Instrumentally Inseminated Queen’s Performance of Apis cerana Species in South Korea

Impact of Confinement and Population Size on the Instrumentally Inseminated Queen’s Performance of Apis cerana Species in South Korea

Varroa destructor Parasitism and Genetic Variability at Honey Bee (Apis mellifera) Drone Congregation Areas and Their Associations With Environmental Variables in Argentina

Balling Behavior of Workers Toward Honey Bee Queens Returning from Mating Flights

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