Table 1 Simplified selection cycle in the honey bee selection programme
Year | Queens | Sires |
|---|---|---|
t | Selection of queens to produce drone-producing queens (sires); birth of sires | |
t + 1 | Selection of queens to produce full-sib groups of queens to be mated to sires | Use of sires for mating to groups of queens, each group being the progeny of a selected queen |
t + 2 | Test of colonies of the set of full-sibs born in t + 1 | |
t + 3 | Selection of queens and birth of next-generation queens to be mated to sires born in t + 2 | Selection of queens to produce drone-producing queens |