Document Type
Article
Journal/Book Title/Conference
Bee World
Volume
47
Publication Date
1-1-1964
First Page
179
Last Page
186
Abstract
In recent years, experiments on the domestication of bumble bees have been carried out in many different countries, in an attempt to ensure a sufficient number of pollinators for seed crops. For several years we in Denmark, at the Royal Veterinary and Agricultural experimental farm, have also investigated methods for promoting the natural population of bumble bees in seed-crop areas. In these experiments we have particularly tried to solve the problem of hibernating the queens on a large scale, without too much expense. This seems possible in unheated greenhouses. We have obtained our queens by getting queens that have hibernated, to nest in hives and produce colonies. The problem is now not the hibernation of queens, but getting the queens to accept and build nests in the hives.
Recommended Citation
Holm, S. Norgaard, "Problems of the Domestication of Bumble Bees" (1964). A. Paper 53.
https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/bee_lab_a/53