International Journal of Industrial Entomology and Biomaterials

Korean Society of Sericultural Science (한국잠사학회)
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Copulation Environment Favorable for colony development of the European Bumblebee, Bombus terrersis

  • Yoon, Hyung-Joo (Department of Agricultural Biology, The National Institute of Agricultural Science & Technology, RDA) ;
  • Kim, Sam-Eun (Department of Agricultural Biology, The National Institute of Agricultural Science & Technology, RDA) ;
  • Lee, Kyeong-Yong (Department of Agricultural Biology, The National Institute of Agricultural Science & Technology, RDA) ;
  • Lee, Sang-Beom (Department of Agricultural Biology, The National Institute of Agricultural Science & Technology, RDA) ;
  • Park, In-Gyun (Department of Agricultural Biology, The National Institute of Agricultural Science & Technology, RDA)
  • Published : 2008.03.31
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Abstract

We investigated mating conditions about care temperature of queen before mating, mating period, and number of queen per mating cage to improve mating rate of Bombus terrestris. Among $19^{\circ}C$, $22^{\circ}C$ and $25^{\circ}C$, care temperatures of queen before mating, queen cared at $19^{\circ}C$ was more effective than those at $22^{\circ}C$ and $25^{\circ}C$ in death rate during care and mating periods, and colony development In case of mating period, oviposition rate and preoviposition periods at queen mated during 3 days were 89.3% and 11.4 days, respectively, which was higher and earlier than those of queen mated during 5 days and 7 days. The rate of worker emergence, colony foundation and progeny-queen production at 3 days-mated queen were also 2.0-11.6% higher than those at queen mated during 5 days and 7 days. In number of queen per mating cage, the rate of worker emergence, colony foundation and progeny-queen production queen mated at mating cage with 10 queens and 30 males were 41.5%, 25.9% and 23.2%, respectively. These values correspond to 1.5-6.8 folds those queen mated at cage with 20 queens and 30 queens. Therefore, we supposed that care temperature favorable for B. terrestris queen was $19^{\circ}C$ and the period need to mating was 3 days, and the number of queen per mating cage ($55{\times}45{\times}65\;cm$) was 10.

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