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Parasitic honeybees get royal treatment

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  • Madeleine Beekman

    (Laboratory of Entomology, Wageningen Agricultural University
    Sheffield University)

  • Johan N. M. Calis

    (Laboratory of Entomology, Wageningen Agricultural University)

  • Willem Jan Boot

    (Laboratory of Entomology, Wageningen Agricultural University)

Abstract

Since the human-assisted movement of the Cape honeybee Apis mellifera capensis out of its native territory, its workers have invaded colonies of the African honeybee A. m. scutellata. When this happens, their ovaries develop and they begin to reproduce1, which results in the death of the scutellata queen, and eventually in either the death of the colony or the production of a capensis (worker-produced) queen1. We have found that capensis larvae alter the behaviour of non-capensis workers and receive royal treatment, resulting in adult females with queenlike characteristics (pseudoqueens2,3,4).

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  • Madeleine Beekman & Johan N. M. Calis & Willem Jan Boot, 2000. "Parasitic honeybees get royal treatment," Nature, Nature, vol. 404(6779), pages 723-723, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:404:y:2000:i:6779:d:10.1038_35008148
    DOI: 10.1038/35008148
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    1. Daniel Charbonneau & Anna Dornhaus, 2015. "When doing nothing is something. How task allocation strategies compromise between flexibility, efficiency, and inactive agents," Journal of Bioeconomics, Springer, vol. 17(3), pages 217-242, October.

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