Grafted Larval Age as a Factor Affecting Honeybee (Apis mellifera) Queen Cell Acceptance and Morphometric Characteristics
Grafted Larval Age as a Factor Affecting Honeybee (Apis mellifera) Queen Cell Acceptance and Morphometric Characteristics
Muhammad Akbar Lashari1, Agha Mushtaque Ahmed1, Dalal M. Aljedani2, Fahad Nazir Khoso1, Rashid Mahmood3, Muhammad Khalid Rafique3, Hamed A. Ghramh4,5,6,7, Waseem Akram3, Saboor Ahmad8, Sabir Hussain9 and Khalid Ali Khan4,5,6,10*
Fig. 1.
Comparison of larval acceptance affected by age of grafted larvae 72 h after grafting during 2020 and 2021 queen-raising seasons.
Fig. 2.
Body weight (A), head width (B), head length (C), thorax width (D), thorax length (E), wing width (F), wing length (G), body length (H) of queens produced from three different ages of grafted larvae during 2020 and 2021.
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