Getting more than a fair share: Nutrition of worker larvae related to social parasitism in the Cape honey bee Apis mellifera capensis

Apidologie

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 193-202

  Calis, Johan N M ^a   Boot, Willem J ^a   Allsopp, Mike H ^a   Beekman, Madeleine ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

A. m. scutellata; African honey bee; Apis mellifera capensis; Cape honey bee; Caste determination; Larval feeding; Parasitism

Indexed keywords

ROYAL JELLY;

BROOD REARING; CASTE; HONEYBEE; NUTRITION; SOCIAL PARASITISM; SUBSPECIES;

ANIMAL ANATOMY; ANIMAL CASTE; ANIMAL FOOD; BODY WEIGHT; BROOD PARASITISM; HONEYBEE; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; ORGANISM COLONY; OVARIOLE NUMBER; OVARY DEVELOPMENT; POLLEN; REARING; REPRODUCTION; REVIEW; SPERMATHECA SIZE; SUBSPECIES; THELYTOKY;

ANIMALIA; APIDAE; APIS; APIS MELLIFERA; APOIDEA; HYMENOPTERA;

EID: 0036254591     PISSN: 00448435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/apido:2002009     Document Type: Review

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