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MANDIBULAR glands have been suggested as a possible source of an odour that attracts drones to virgin queens for mating1. The experiments in this report concern attempts to determine if virgin queens without mandibular glands can mate. Data discussed here are made more significant by the discovery, made after these experiments were conducted, that the mandibular glands are indeed the primary source of mating attractant odours2.
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MORSE, R., GARY, N. & JOHANSSON, T. Mating of Virgin Queen Honey Bees (Apis mellifera L.) following Mandibular Gland Extirpation. Nature 194, 605 (1962). https://doi.org/10.1038/194605a0
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