| 单词 | queen substance |
| 释义 | > as lemmasqueen substance queen substance n. Entomology a mixture of pheromones produced by a queen honeybee, which inhibits the development of the worker bees' ovaries and prevents them from constructing queen cells and rearing new queens; any of the pheromones constituting this mixture. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Hymenoptera > [noun] > suborder Apocrita, Petiolata, or Heterophaga > group Aculeata (stinging) > superfamily Apoidea (bees) > queen bee > substance produced by queen substance1954 1954 C. G. Butler in Trans. Royal Entomol. Soc. 105 14 It is necessary for the bees to have physical contact with their queen in order to obtain this ‘queen substance’. 1972 Sci. Amer. Sept. 56/3 The ‘queen substances’ are outstanding in the complexity and pervasiveness of their role in social organization. 1992 H. R. C. Riches Handbk. Beekeeping ii. 16 [The queen's] other important function is to produce pheromones from her mandibular glands, called ‘Queen substances’, which the workers lick from her body and distribute amongst themselves. < as lemmas |
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