Finman
Queen Bee
- Joined
- Nov 8, 2008
- Messages
- 27,887
- Reaction score
- 2,023
- Location
- Finland, Helsinki
- Hive Type
- Langstroth
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Old saga is that you may shake worker layer colony to some distance and then laying workers cannot fly to the hive. And the worker queen does not like real queen and kills it.
---- This is all imagination and revieled by Sheffiels University.
It is rare, but it happens, that in queen right colonies some workers may lay eggs. These eggs will be eaten by other bees inside 24 hours. That phenomenom is called "worker policing". I was first found from swaps and then researchers got into their mind, does it exist in honey bee? And it did, and in many others bee like colonies.
"Honey bee workers are often referred to as sterile.
They are not. Each possesses two ovaries and can lay
viable eggs if her ovaries are activated. (Almost all the
workers, approximately 99.98%, in a queenright colony
have non-active ovaries which are thread like in
appearance. But the occasional worker has activated
ovaries containing full-sized eggs. In a queenless colony
with laying workers up to approximately 50% of the
workers have activated ovaries.) Because workers cannot
mate they can only lay unfertilized eggs."
See more
http://www.lasi.group.shef.ac.uk/aps323/ConflictInBeeHive.pdf
.
Old saga is that you may shake worker layer colony to some distance and then laying workers cannot fly to the hive. And the worker queen does not like real queen and kills it.
---- This is all imagination and revieled by Sheffiels University.
It is rare, but it happens, that in queen right colonies some workers may lay eggs. These eggs will be eaten by other bees inside 24 hours. That phenomenom is called "worker policing". I was first found from swaps and then researchers got into their mind, does it exist in honey bee? And it did, and in many others bee like colonies.
"Honey bee workers are often referred to as sterile.
They are not. Each possesses two ovaries and can lay
viable eggs if her ovaries are activated. (Almost all the
workers, approximately 99.98%, in a queenright colony
have non-active ovaries which are thread like in
appearance. But the occasional worker has activated
ovaries containing full-sized eggs. In a queenless colony
with laying workers up to approximately 50% of the
workers have activated ovaries.) Because workers cannot
mate they can only lay unfertilized eggs."
See more
http://www.lasi.group.shef.ac.uk/aps323/ConflictInBeeHive.pdf
.