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supersedure: a standalone construct

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supersedure1 CONSTRUCTQueen supersedureQUEEN · SELF REPLACE

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Apiculture

A colony quietly replaces its own queen

In apiculture, supersedure is the process by which a honey bee colony replaces its reigning queen with a new one without swarming: the workers raise one or a few supersedure queen cells, and the daughter queen takes over, often while the failing mother is still present, so colony numbers are not split. It is typically triggered by a queen that is old, injured, poorly mated, or low in pheromone, and beekeepers read supersedure cells as a sign the queen is failing. Caron and Connor's Honey Bee Biology and Beekeeping and Tarpy, Hatch, and Fletcher's study of queen replacement describe its triggers and the quality of the replacement. The referent is self-directed queen replacement within one continuous colony, recognised by the position and number of queen cells.[1][2]

Unit
Whether a colony is replacing its queen without swarming
Recovery means
Supersedure is itself the colony's recovery from a failing queen, restoring laying without a population split
Measured by
Recognised by supersedure queen cells (typically few, on the comb face) and a changed laying queen

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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. Tarpy, D. R., Hatch, S., & Fletcher, D. J. C. (2000). The influence of queen age and quality during queen replacement in honeybee colonies. Animal Behaviour, 59(1), 97–101. https://doi.org/10.1006/anbe.1999.1311

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