Method for culturing cenospecies of apis cerana fabricius and apis mellifera linneae

Abstract

The invention relates to a method for breeding a novel bee species by breeding a hybrid of east bees and west bees, comprising introducing a west bee brood comb going to come out cells into a swarm of east bees preparing for laying eggs, to make the number of east worker bees equal to that of west worker bees, and obtaning a mixed swarm; the east queen bee laying eggs on empty combs, moving out the east queen bee to make the swarm without a queen, after the first generation east worker bees have got out cells; putting in a queen cell frame 20-22 hours later, breeding a queen with four-day old east bee grubs of same swarm to get a novel east queen bee; and hybridizing said queen as mother with west male bee as father by artificial insemination or natural copulation to obtain a hybrid thereof. The method breaks the reproductive isolation between two different species, and the hybrid obtained thereby has a remarkble heterosis.

Description

technical field

[0001] The invention belongs to a technology for cultivating new varieties of bees, in particular to a method for cultivating new varieties of bees with high yield and disease resistance. technical background

[0002] Beekeeping occupies a very important position in the modern agricultural system. Beekeeping does not occupy arable land, has small investment, high income, no pollution, no three wastes, and can also improve the ecological environment. With the rapid development of society and economy, people's demand for nutritious food, health food and natural medicine is constantly increasing, so the demand for bee products is also expanding. One of the key technologies in the development of beekeeping lies in the variety of bees.

[0003] Western honeybee (Apis mellifera) is currently the most studied bee species, and their intraspecific variation is also the most complex. There are mainly four subspecies types: Italian bee, Carniola bee, European black be...