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| To contrast with Apis dorsata, here is a comb of Apix melifera built in the nice boxes that people provide them with (they also can nest in hollow trees, but have a much higher survival in nest boxes). Incidentally, the large cells are queen cells, indicating that this colony has gotten large enough such that it can make several queens (sisters), they fight it out, and each takes a major portion of the colony off to start again. The Apis dorsata nests are made up of multiple layers of such cells, strong waxed to the tree branches as in DHJanzen100448.jpg above. | ||
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