larval rearing

Rearing Africanized honey bee (Apis mellifera L.) brood under laboratory conditions

I. C. Silva, Message, D., Cruz, C. D., Campos, L. A. O., and Sousa-Majer, M. J., Rearing Africanized honey bee (Apis mellifera L.) brood under laboratory conditions, vol. 8, pp. 623-629, 2009.

We developed a method for rearing larvae of Africanized bees under laboratory conditions to determine the amount of diet needed during larval development to obtain a worker bee. We started with larvae 18-24 h old, which were transferred to polyethylene cell cups and fed for five days. We found that the amount of diet needed for successful larval development was: 4, 15, 25, 50, and 70 μl during the first to fifth days, respectively.

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