Haplo-Diploidy
Morphometry
Fecundity
Metamorphosis
Population Dynamics
Longevity
Wing Wear
Laying Workers
Anarchic Syndrome
Worker Policing
Thelytoky
Mating Behaviour
Bee Diseases
Weather Sensing
Egg & Embryo Development
Foraging Day Length
Larval Development
Anatomy
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Biology of the Honey Bee
My knowledge of beekeeping seems to grow in inverse proportion to my ability to practice it, as a result, I have more time to devote to finding out more on those topics, that I have perhaps neglected in the past.
In particular I have been learning much about genetics, genetic differences between races and strains, and measuring these differences for assessment of individual colonies in terms of purity of mating and being true to type in performance.
Various performance related issues are discussed in these documents, which will be added to from time to time.
If you have further information on this, or related, topics that you would like to share with others, please Email me so that I can add it to the records here.
I hope to add later (when the work is more complete and better understood) some work currently being undertaken, by Prof. Robert Pickard, on the development and tomography of bee brains. This is exciting recent work using a miniature NMR scanner.
The pages on egg and larval development are mainly taken from work by Roger Morse and Ted Hooper (the drawings, however are all entirely my own).
