Abstract:

Unlike honey bees, in the Bombus terrestris colonies, the main bees, along with the ends of their life cycle, are also produced by the working bees, and the male bees are produced from these haploid eggs that are eaten by both the founding main bees and the working bees. In the colonies, the male bees that develop from the main and working bees egg cannot be morphologically separated, and all male bees produced in the colonies in mass cultivation are used for the purpose of coupling. This study was conducted with the aim of comparing the development characteristics of the colonies in which the main bees are associated with male bees produced from haploid eggs that are eaten by both the main bees and the working bees in B. terrestris. In the study, male bees were produced for both groups by forming older working bees groups and unparalleled main bees groups, and these male bees were combined with young B. terrestris main bees produced in standard colonies. At the end of the Diapose period, some characteristics of colonial development were determined in the colonies that these main bees formed. The research results showed that male bees produced from the haploid eggs produced by the main bees and the working bees, and the main bees associated with them, have no significant difference in terms of their colonial creation performance and their determining development characteristics between the colonies they form.

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