Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society, Vol. 81, No. 2 (Jun., 2008), pp. 92-100 (9 pages) The study was conducted to determine the effects of queen body weight at emergence on the mating ratio, ...
The extended phenotype of a social insect colony enables selection to act at both the individual level (within-colony selection) and the colony level (between-colony selection). Whether a particular ...
A COLONY of honeybees (Apis mellifera L.) deprived of its hive and combs behaves like a reproductive swarm and will cluster on any convenient support. When the queen is taken away from such an ...