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festoon: a standalone construct

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festoon1 CONSTRUCTBee festooningWAX CHAIN · COMB BUILD

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Apiculture

Bees link into living chains to build comb

In apiculture, festooning is the behaviour in which worker bees link legs to form hanging curtains or chains of bees across a gap in the hive while they secrete wax and draw out comb. The living scaffold is thought to hold the builders in position and may help them gauge vertical alignment and spacing as fresh comb is shaped. General beekeeping references such as Caron and Connor's Honey Bee Biology and Beekeeping describe festoons as a normal feature of active comb construction. The referent is a self-assembled chain of bees during building, observed on the frame, and it has nothing to do with a carved garland or a sagging eyelid beyond the shared image of a draped swag.[1][2]

Unit
The presence and span of bee chains during comb building
Recovery means
Not applicable
Measured by
Observed qualitatively as curtains of linked bees across frames during wax drawing

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References

  1. Caron, D. M., & Connor, L. J. (2013). Honey bee biology and beekeeping (Rev. ed.). Wicwas Press. ISBN 9781878075291
  2. Graham, J. M. (Ed.). (2015). The hive and the honey bee (Rev. ed.). Dadant & Sons. ISBN 9780915698165

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