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Rearing Honeybee (Apis cerana) Queens Using Wax Cups and Royal Jelly
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We compared the grafting success in total of 107 rearing Apis carana queens cells, to which we grafted 540 larvae. The wax for cups we prepared from A. mellifera and A. cerana wax. The A. cerana wax cups were found that artificial queen cell cups with the internal diameter of 8.0 mm at the mouth and 8.0 mm depth were highly preferred by the bees for rearing of queens from the grafted larvae. From the 210 grafted larvae into A. mellifera wax bees accepted 30 queens cells, only (16.67 %) ; A. cerana wax bees accepted 59 queens cells (33 %) ; plastic cup bees accepted 18 queens cells, only (10 %). In the preference test the grafting success in the A. cerana wax cups were better than in the A. mellifera wax and plastic cup. The results show better acceptance of larvae grafted into the pure A. cerana wax cups for rearing A. cerana queen. A new method for rearing honey bees, A. cerana, in vivo was developed and the effects of royal jelly from A. mellifera. We used royal jelly diluted 50:50 with sterile water (The royal jelly is kept frozen until used). A small amount of royal jelly is placed at the center of each cell cup. Young A. cerana larvae were transferred into the queen cups containing ± 10 ㎍ of the Royal jelly from A. mellifera and A. cerana. The average rates of acceptance were affected significantly due to the royal jelly source in the queen cell cups. It is so workable first to produce pure A. cerana wax for making the queen cups before a beekeeper starts with grafting.
