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| Mutual feeding (trophollaxis) between two A. cerana workers. The one on the right side is taking food from the left one. Viewed: 3073 times. |
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| The worker in the center (blurred) is performing a 'cleaning dance' to elicit grooming behavior by other workers. Extensive grooming is considered one of the traits that cerana has to fight against varroa mites. Viewed: 3152 times. |
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| The queen in the center is seeing laying eggs with workers surrounding her. Viewed: 2878 times. |
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| Three cerana workers feeding on honey. Viewed: 2530 times. |
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| Another three gals. Viewed: 2542 times. |
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| Various pupal stages of Apis cerana. Viewed: 2306 times. |
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| Eggs of Apis cerana. Viewed: 3424 times. |
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| Apis cerana larvae, about 2 days before being sealed. Unless you start with brand new foundation for Apis mellifera, you do not see beeswax this white for brood cells. In Apis cerana, they do not seem to recycle the wax for brood cells as much as our bees. Viewed: 2783 times. |
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| Apis cerana workers on capped brood. A. cerana probably never reuses old wax for brood capping (as the mellifera do), since the brood capping is almost as clean as the honey capping. Viewed: 2424 times. |
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| This pictures shows all the brood stages: eggs, young and old larvae, and capped cells. The glistening cells contain honey and one contain pollen. Can you find the pollen cell? Viewed: 2427 times. |
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