Nano colonies: Rearing honey bee queens and their offspring in small laboratory arenas
Honey bees create complex societies of self-organized individuals in intricate colonies. Studies of honey bees are carried out in both the field and the laboratory. However, field research is encumbered by the difficulties of making reliable observations and environmental confounders. Meanwhile, lab...
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| author | Zachary S. Lamas Serhat Solmaz Cory Stevens Jason Bragg Eugene V. Ryabov Shayne Madella Miguel Corona Jay D. Evans |
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| description | Honey bees create complex societies of self-organized individuals in intricate colonies. Studies of honey bees are carried out in both the field and the laboratory. However, field research is encumbered by the difficulties of making reliable observations and environmental confounders. Meanwhile, laboratory trials produce data that are not field realistic as they lack key characteristics of a natural colony. Additionally, advances in honey bee research have been hindered without reliable methodology to rear queens in the laboratory. Here we provide a new system to reliably produce queens and worker brood in the laboratory and describe how this system fits with artificial insemination of queens as a step towards a continuous self-contained source of bees. The process creates a bridge between field research and laboratory trials and provides a secure system for contagious or regulated elements while maintaining many of the intrinsic characteristics of a honey bee colony. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-ee362ef95c024914958c85d9afa57d512025-02-02T05:28:51ZengElsevierHeliyon2405-84402025-01-01112e42042Nano colonies: Rearing honey bee queens and their offspring in small laboratory arenasZachary S. Lamas0Serhat Solmaz1Cory Stevens2Jason Bragg3Eugene V. Ryabov4Shayne Madella5Miguel Corona6Jay D. Evans7USDA-ARS Bee Research Lab, BARC-East Bldg. 306, Beltsville, MD, 20705, USA; Corresponding author.Apiculture Research Institute, Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, Ordu, TurkeyIndependent Researchers, USAIndependent Researchers, USAThe James Hutton Institute, Invergowrie, Dundee, United KingdomUSDA-ARS Bee Research Lab, BARC-East Bldg. 306, Beltsville, MD, 20705, USAUSDA-ARS Bee Research Lab, BARC-East Bldg. 306, Beltsville, MD, 20705, USAUSDA-ARS Bee Research Lab, BARC-East Bldg. 306, Beltsville, MD, 20705, USAHoney bees create complex societies of self-organized individuals in intricate colonies. Studies of honey bees are carried out in both the field and the laboratory. However, field research is encumbered by the difficulties of making reliable observations and environmental confounders. Meanwhile, laboratory trials produce data that are not field realistic as they lack key characteristics of a natural colony. Additionally, advances in honey bee research have been hindered without reliable methodology to rear queens in the laboratory. Here we provide a new system to reliably produce queens and worker brood in the laboratory and describe how this system fits with artificial insemination of queens as a step towards a continuous self-contained source of bees. The process creates a bridge between field research and laboratory trials and provides a secure system for contagious or regulated elements while maintaining many of the intrinsic characteristics of a honey bee colony.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405844025004220 |
| spellingShingle | Zachary S. Lamas Serhat Solmaz Cory Stevens Jason Bragg Eugene V. Ryabov Shayne Madella Miguel Corona Jay D. Evans Nano colonies: Rearing honey bee queens and their offspring in small laboratory arenas Heliyon |
| title | Nano colonies: Rearing honey bee queens and their offspring in small laboratory arenas |
| title_full | Nano colonies: Rearing honey bee queens and their offspring in small laboratory arenas |
| title_fullStr | Nano colonies: Rearing honey bee queens and their offspring in small laboratory arenas |
| title_full_unstemmed | Nano colonies: Rearing honey bee queens and their offspring in small laboratory arenas |
| title_short | Nano colonies: Rearing honey bee queens and their offspring in small laboratory arenas |
| title_sort | nano colonies rearing honey bee queens and their offspring in small laboratory arenas |
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