We generated hybrid supersister queens by instrumentally inseminating a virgin queen from a low line with semen of a single drone from one high line.
African virgin queens are more successful fighters, too, which gives them a significant advantage if they encounter other virgin queens in the colony.
The bees raise the virgin queens until mature at which time the beekeeper transfers them into a small hive called a nucleus.
After determining the dance characteristics of 25-35 foragers of these two colonies, two virgin queens were reared from the yellow parent and each instrumentally inseminated with semen of single sons of the black parent.
Although most drone bees are in fact as useless as clergy, at least one of them does perform an important function - fertilizing a virgin queen bee and engendering a new colony.
2Queen Elizabeth I of England, who died unmarried.
童贞女王（即英国伊丽莎白一世女王，她终身未婚）
Definition of virgin queen in US English:
virgin queen
noun
1An unfertilized queen bee.
未受精蜂王，未受精母蜂
Example sentencesExamples
Although most drone bees are in fact as useless as clergy, at least one of them does perform an important function - fertilizing a virgin queen bee and engendering a new colony.
After determining the dance characteristics of 25-35 foragers of these two colonies, two virgin queens were reared from the yellow parent and each instrumentally inseminated with semen of single sons of the black parent.
African virgin queens are more successful fighters, too, which gives them a significant advantage if they encounter other virgin queens in the colony.
The bees raise the virgin queens until mature at which time the beekeeper transfers them into a small hive called a nucleus.
We generated hybrid supersister queens by instrumentally inseminating a virgin queen from a low line with semen of a single drone from one high line.
2the Virgin QueenQueen Elizabeth I of England, who died unmarried.