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LARVAL REARING BY WORKER HONEY BEES LACKING THEIR MANDIBULAR GLANDS: II. REARING BY LARGER NUMBERS OF WORKER BEES

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

Ying-Shin Peng  and
S. C. Jay
Ying-Shin Peng
Affiliation:
Department of Entomology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg R3T 2N2
S. C. Jay
Affiliation:
Department of Entomology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg R3T 2N2
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Abstract

Further experiments were done in an attempt to ascertain the significance of the mandibular glands of nurse bees in female caste differentiation. Groups of 200, 10-day-old nurse bees, with their mandibular glands removed, fed female larvae for 80 h in plastic queen cell cups in the laboratory. After this, each larva finished feeding in a 4-day-old queen cell containing "royal jelly"; final development occurred in an artificial pupation dish. Because four adults, classified as "queenlike intermediates," were reared it appears that (1) mandibular gland secretion is less important as a larval food than that of the hypopharyngeal glands, and (2) if a "queen determining substance" exists the mandibular glands are not its only source.

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The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 111 , Issue 1 , January 1979 , pp. 101 - 104
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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1979

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