Hygienic Behaviour of Honeybee Colonies with Different Levels of Polyandry and Genotypic Composition

Honey bee queens were inseminated with diluted, homogenised semen collected from a few dozen drones. This procedure was carried out to increase the diversity of the queens’ offspring, which is in comparison to the offspring of queens inseminated with semen from only a few drones coming from one colo...

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Main Authors: Gerula Dariusz, Węgrzynowicz Paweł, Panasiuk Beata, Bieńkowska Małgorzata, Skowronek Wojciech
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sciendo 2015-12-01
Series:Journal of Apicultural Science
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1515/jas-2015-0020