Both hygienic and non-hygienic honeybee, Apis mellifera , colonies remove dead and diseased larvae from open brood cells
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Evaluation of the time of uncapping and removing dead brood from cells by hygienic and non-hygienic honey bees.
Most research on hygienic behavior has recorded the time taken by the colony to remove an experimental amount of dead brood, usually after one or two days. We evaluated the time that hygienic (H) and non-hygienic (NH) honey bees take to uncap and remove dead brood in observation hives after the brood was killed using the pin-killing assay. Four experimental colonies were selected as the extreme...
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عنوان ژورنال: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
سال: 2018
ISSN: 0962-8436,1471-2970
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2017.0201