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- Title
Yıl Boyu Kitlesel Bombus Arısı (Bombus terrestris) Yetiştiriciliğinde Çiftleştirme Aşaması.
- Authors
GÖSTERİT, Ayhan; GÜREL, Fehmi
- Abstract
Year-round bumble bee rearing facilities as a pollination vector in the production of many crops under greenhouse conditions are a strategic area of agriculture that is increasingly prevalent all over the world. Year round rearing of bumblebees under controlled conditions involves stages such as colony initiation, queen and male rearing, selection, mating, and breaking of diapause. Mating is one of the most critical stages for sustainability of year-round rearing. In contrast to honeybees, B. terrestris queens (♀) and males (♂) can be mated in flight cages. While the males do not die after copulation and can remate, the queens mate with only one male. Many factors such as age and body size, volatile pheromones secreted from the labial glands, male / queen ratio in mating cage, environmental conditions such as light intensity & frequency, temperature, photoperiod and nest material have effects on mating success. Like honeybees, the sex of bumblebees is determined by haplodiploidy in B. terrestris. Fertilized eggs laid by mated queens develop into adult diploid males if they are homozygous at a single sex locus. The production of diploid males increases dramatically with inbreeding. For this reason, rearing the young queens in sufficient numbers and mating them with unrelated males is also crucial for obtain quality colonies in successive generation. In this study, definition of basic necessities for mating stage on rearing stage of B. terrestris under controlled conditions was aimed.
- Publication
Yuzuncu Yil Universitesi Journal of Agricultural Sciences (YYU J Agr Sci), 2018, Vol 28, Issue 1, p112
- ISSN
1308-7576
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.29133/yyutbd.309076