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SHIPPING HONEY BEE QUEENS IN PACKAGE BEES WITH AND WITHOUT ATTENDANTS

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

S. C. Jay
S. C. Jay
Affiliation:
Department of Entomology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg
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Abstract

Queen losses were compared when caged queens with attendant worker bees and caged queens without attendants were used in packages of honey bees being shipped from the southern United States to Canada. When the colonies were hived there was no difference in queen losses in the two treatments.

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The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 99 , Issue 3 , March 1967 , pp. 323 - 325
Copyright
Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1967

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