Welcome, Guest

Author Topic: How the queen know  (Read 2319 times)

Offline drone1952

  • New Bee
  • *
  • Posts: 27
  • Gender: Male
    • STIRI DIN STUPARIT (Apinews)
How the queen know
« on: April 22, 2010, 11:56:22 am »
My Friends,

I want to ask: how the queen knows drone cell and  she measure it?

Thanks
George

Offline indypartridge

  • Queen Bee
  • ****
  • Posts: 1131
Re: How the queen know
« Reply #1 on: April 22, 2010, 12:14:52 pm »
She uses her antennae to measure cells.

Offline Michael Bush

  • Universal Bee
  • *******
  • Posts: 19835
  • Gender: Male
    • bushfarms.com
Re: How the queen know
« Reply #2 on: April 24, 2010, 12:55:54 am »
Actually, most of the literature I can find says she uses her front legs to measure it.  Of course it's obvious, if you watch she also uses her antennae, but I think that's to see that it's been properly prepared for laying.
My website:  bushfarms.com/bees.htm en espanol: bushfarms.com/es_bees.htm  auf deutsche: bushfarms.com/de_bees.htm  em portugues:  bushfarms.com/pt_bees.htm
My book:  ThePracticalBeekeeper.com
-------------------
"Everything works if you let it."--James "Big Boy" Medlin

Offline Jim134

  • Galactic Bee
  • ******
  • Posts: 3051
  • Gender: Male
    • Franklin County Beekeepers Association
Re: How the queen know
« Reply #3 on: April 24, 2010, 09:47:38 am »
   Actually most of the literature I have read says the queen uses her front legs to measure the top of cell after she back in to it.
Workers measure the botton of cell using their front legs but go head firsts
      



         BEE HAPPY Jim 134  :)
« Last Edit: April 24, 2010, 02:56:58 pm by Jim 134 »
"Tell me and I'll forget,show me and I may  remember,involve me and I'll understand"
        Chinese Proverb

"The farmer is the only man in our economy who buys everything at retail, sells everything at wholesale, and pays the freight both ways."
 John F. Kennedy
Franklin County Beekeepers Association MA. http://www.franklinmabeekeepers.org/

 

anything