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Ethology Ecology & Evolution Volume 3, 1991 - Issue sup1: Proceedings of the Third Conference of the Italian Section of the International Union for the Study of Social Insects
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Hymenoptera: Bees

Numerical ratio between adult bees and reared brood

M. Accorti Istituto Sperimentale per la Zoologia Agraria, Sezione Apicoltura, Via Lanciola, Cascine del Riccio, 50125, Firenze, Italy
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F. Tarducci Istituto Sperimentale per la Zoologia Agraria, Sezione Apicoltura, Via Lanciola, Cascine del Riccio, 50125, Firenze, Italy
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F. Luti Istituto Sperimentale per la Zoologia Agraria, Sezione Apicoltura, Via Lanciola, Cascine del Riccio, 50125, Firenze, Italy
Pages 119-122 | Received 12 Mar 1990, Published online: 21 Jun 2013
 
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Abstract

The greater part of the bee bibliography indicates that in a bee colony in full development there are more adult than immature individuals. Our research does not confirm this position and we are inclined to support the hypothesis, which at the moment in the field of bee studies is a minority one, that the development models present in other hymenopteran societies are also true of the bee.

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