The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois
发明人:
Gene Robinson,Hagai Y. Shpigler,Ran Chao,Allyson M. Ray,Alison L. Sankey
申请号：
US16416033
公开号：
US20190350175A1
申请日:
2019.05.17
申请国别(地区):
US
年份:
2019
代理人:
摘要：
The present disclosure provides a novel queen monitoring cage system comprising a housing having a plurality of holes to provide ventilation, at least one egg laying plate, serving as an inner wall of the cage. The egg laying plate includes a plurality of hexagonal cells, and one or more ports to allow materials to be added to the housing. Additional embodiments of the system provides a removable drawer for the insertion and removal of bees, and inserts to prevent escape of bees while egg laying plates are added and removed. Experimental results show that the queen monitoring cage can be used to study queen egg laying behavior under laboratory controlled conditions.
