{"id":3015,"date":"2026-04-16T13:50:36","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T13:50:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apimondia.org\/?p=3015"},"modified":"2026-04-16T13:50:36","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T13:50:36","slug":"queen-banks-are-good-for-honey-bee-queens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apimondia.org\/fra\/uncategorized\/queen-banks-are-good-for-honey-bee-queens\/","title":{"rendered":"Les ruches pour reines sont-elles bonnes pour les reines d'abeilles mellif\u00e8res ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/00218839.2025.2558395#abstract\" title=\"\">Canadian study<\/a><\/strong> investigated the impact of overwintering banked queens, using well-populated hives as queen banks, each containing 40 queens. Reproductive and nutritional parameters were evaluated, including queen and ovary weight, abdominal index, sperm metrics, protein levels, and the spring brood development of the colonies. After wintering, no significant differences were found in these parameters between the groups. Only brood development was somewhat slower in the colonies with banked queens. The main issue observed was the survival rate of the banked queens, which was significantly lower than that of non-banked queens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, queen banking remains a useful method for ensuring efficient and sufficient queen availability in early spring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More details <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/apimondia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Queen-banks-Safe-for-Quality.pdf\" title=\"\">ici<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Canadian study investigated the impact of overwintering banked queens, using well-populated hives as queen banks, each containing 40 queens. Reproductive and nutritional parameters were evaluated, including queen and ovary weight, abdominal index, sperm metrics, protein levels, and the spring brood development of the colonies. After wintering, no significant differences were found in these parameters between the groups. Only brood development was somewhat slower in the colonies with banked queens. The main issue observed was the survival rate of the banked queens, which was significantly lower than that of non-banked queens.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3016,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apimondia.org\/fra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apimondia.org\/fra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apimondia.org\/fra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apimondia.org\/fra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apimondia.org\/fra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3015"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/apimondia.org\/fra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3019,"href":"https:\/\/apimondia.org\/fra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3015\/revisions\/3019"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apimondia.org\/fra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apimondia.org\/fra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apimondia.org\/fra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apimondia.org\/fra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}