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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: 4224 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: 4201 times. |
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| The queen in the center is seeing laying eggs with workers surrounding her. Viewed: 3775 times. |
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| Three cerana workers feeding on honey. Viewed: 3356 times. |
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| Another three gals. Viewed: 3501 times. |
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| Various pupal stages of Apis cerana. Viewed: 3205 times. |
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| Eggs of Apis cerana. Viewed: 5140 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: 3894 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: 3317 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: 3364 times. |
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