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Lopez-Vaamonde, Carlos, Brown, Ruth M., Lucas, Eric R., Pereboom, Jeffrey J. M., Jordan, William C. and Bourke, Andrew F. G. 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5891-8816
(2007)
Effect of the queen on worker reproduction and new queen production in the bumble bee Bombus terrestris.
Apidologie, 38 (2).
pp. 171-180.
ISSN 1297-9678
Abstract
We tested the hypotheses that a non-volatile pheromone inhibiting worker egg-laying and queen development produced by Bombus terrestris queens has effects transferable (a) from workers to other workers or larvae, or (b) on wax. We subdivided small, young colonies with a single mesh screen (Experiment 1) and larger, older colonies with a double mesh screen (Experiment 2). One treatment (in both experiments) involved the transfer of workers, and one treatment (in Experiment 2 only) involved the transfer of wax, from the queenright to the queenless compartments. Queenlessness induced significantly earlier onset of worker aggression (followed by egg-laying) in all treatments in both experiments, and significantly earlier queen production in all treatments in Experiment 2 (small colony sizes probably hindered queen production in Experiment 1). These findings suggested that the effects of B. terrestris queen pheromone are not transferable via workers or wax.
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Science > School of Biological Sciences |
| UEA Research Groups: | Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Organisms and the Environment Faculty of Science > Research Centres > Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Conservation |
| Depositing User: | EPrints Services |
| Date Deposited: | 01 Oct 2010 13:38 |
| Last Modified: | 24 Sep 2024 09:38 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/1397 |
| DOI: | 10.1051/apido:2006070 |
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