BaconWizard
House Bee
- Joined
- Aug 15, 2021
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- Location
- Shropshire, UK
- Hive Type
- warre
- Number of Hives
- 2
Ok so simple question: Queen Mandibular Pheromone is passed from bee to bee throughout the colony. I have already read in various places that this happens via trophallaxis but those sources were blogs, I don't trust the information in them to be very accurate.
So that's my question: Is the pheromone passed during the course of ordinary feeding ie trophallaxis? Or is it passed deliberately in a separate mouth-to-mouth interaction? Or don't we know?
So that's my question: Is the pheromone passed during the course of ordinary feeding ie trophallaxis? Or is it passed deliberately in a separate mouth-to-mouth interaction? Or don't we know?
