Abstract

Polyandrous queen honey bee plays a crucial role in regulating colony strength, sex ratio, colony productivity, social communication, pheromonal regulation of colonial events and developmental controls. On the other hand, a honey bee colony without a queen fails to perpetuate. Therefore for profitable beekeeping, apiarists try to inoculate a colony with a queen with considerable fertility and strong pheromonal profiling. The present chapter highlights the importance of requeening and its method .