Abstract

The study was conducted at the Nasser College of Agricultural Sciences, Aden University, under the Directorate of Houta/ Lahj Governorate, on the Yemeni bee Strain Apis mellifere yemenitica, during November 2017, in order to study the effect of the two methods of rearing Miller and Dolittle on the qualities of queens emerging in terms of number of queen cells; The number of queen virgins Newly emergences - the weight of the queen virgins Newly emergences, the size of the queen cells after the exit, the length of the body of the queens and the length and width of the Abdomen of the virgins queens). The results showed the significant superiority of the Miller method on the Dolittle method in the number of queen cells consisting of the number of virgins, respectively, and the exit percentage, which was 17±1.15 queen cells, 14±1.15 queen virgin with percentages of 82.6±6.20 %, while significant superiority of the Miller method on the Dolittle method in the abdomen length which was 9.13± 0.24 mm, and the rest of the other studied traits did not have any significant differences between the methods of Miller and Dolittle.