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SOME FACTORS AFFECTING SUCCESSFUL APIS MELLIFERA QUEEN REARING IN SOHAG

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Last updated: 22 Jan 2023

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Studies were accomplished to identify the important factors affecting successful virgin queens production in Sohag during 2007 and 2008 years. In order to find out the best teaching for rearing virgin queens by grafting method. Markedly differences in the mean number of virgin queens between single and double grafting methods, specially in spring and autumn seasons; in spring mean number of accepted cells of 43.77 with 37.66 emerged queens and 49.85 with 47.07 emerged queens were obtained when single and double grafting were used methods respectively. Spring season was favorable for queens rearing, followed by autumn and summer, while winter season came the latest. There was a clear relationship between larval age at grafting and the larval acceptance, one day old worker larvae gave the highest number of virgin queens emerged. On the other hand, the queen must be removed outside the hive 48 hrs before starting larval grafting to obtain the highest numbers of accepted queen cells. In general, double grafting, situating the cell cups frame in the hive center of the hive and fitting the cell cups on the top and bottom bar, gave the best method for queens acceptance and queens production. However, cell cups fitted on the edges of the bars were successfully reared when ambient temperatures were high in spring season, but queen cells in the center of the hive's brood nest were correlated with higher temperature and had a greater chance for emergence.

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10.21608/ajs.2010.15003

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: Honey bee, Apis mellifera, L, Queen rearing, Virgin queens, queen production

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I.M

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El-Metwally

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- Mubarak City for Scientific Research, Arid Lands Cultivation and Development Research Institute, Borg El-Arab, Egypt

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R.M.H

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Tagour

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Weed Research Laboratory

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18

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2968

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2010-03-01

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2009-07-22

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2010-03-01

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213

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219

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1110-2675

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2636-3585

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Arab Universities Journal of Agricultural Sciences

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22 Jan 2023