METHOD FOR BREEDING, SUPPLYING AND RAISING JAPANESE INDIGENOUS BUMBLEBEES

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for breeding, supplying and raising indigenous Japanese bumblebees by which the bumblebees can be raised, while making entering of a new queen bee after matting, into diapause of several months, averted.;SOLUTION: The method for breeding, supplying and raising the indigenous Japanese bumblebees is carried out via at least a first step for obtaining worker bees from the queen bee of the indigenous Japanese bumblebees in a small box 15; a second step for enabling eggs to make the resulting bees emerge and be raised by colonies; a third step for making the new queen bee, after the raising, to mate with male bees; a fourth step for subjecting the new queen bee after the copulation to a prescribed diapause treatment; a fifth step for raising the new queen bee, after the diapause; and a sixth step for making the method return to the first step, when the new queen bee starts laying eggs, by moving the new queen bee into the nest chamber 23 of the small box 15.;COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT