Elemental analysis of eggs for two honey bee races

Journal Article

Al-Ghamdi, Ahmed . 2013

• المجلة \ الصحيفة: Iranian Journal of Entomology
• رقم العدد: 1
• رقم الإصدار السنوي: 3
• الصفحات: 14-17

مستخلص المنشور

There are various factors affecting
successful egg hatching in insects including
environmental factors, such as relative
humidity and temperature, parasitism
conditions, genetic factors and diseases. A
little is known about eggs hatchability in
most insects. Insect eggs (e.g., honey bees)
consist of micropyle, chorion, delicate
Vitelline membrane, cortical layer of
cytoplasm (Snodgrass and Erickson 1992).
The vitellogenin is the major egg yolk
protein (Hagedorn and Kunkel 1979).
Different resistance to dehydration has been found among different egg types (Wegener
et al. 2010).