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Table I

Mean number and proportion of retinue bees (± SD) attracted to the queens for each group.

A. cerana queen-led A. mellifera queen-led Pure A. Pure A.
mixed colonies mixed colonies cerana mellifera
colonies colonies

A. cerana A. mellifera A. cerana A. mellifera A. cerana A. mellifera
Col. retinue retinue retinue retinue retinue retinue
1 56.4 ± 6.4 54.9 ± 6.4 49.4 ± 6.6 50.4 ± 3.1 101.9 ± 4.9 103.9 ± 7.6

2 46.6 ± 4.6 42.9 ± 4.7 44.4 ± 5.7 51.0 ± 5.0 109.1 ± 10.0 107.3 ± 12.5
3 57.3 ± 6.0 55.9 ± 5.9 49.4 ± 4.6 54.1 ± 5.1 106.4 ± 11.0 112.1 ± 12.6

x ± SD 53.4 ± 7.4 51.2 ± 8.1 47.8 ± 5.9 51.9 ± 4.6 105.8 ± 9.1 107.8 ± 11.2
Proportion 0.51 ± 0.04 0.49 ± 0.04 0.48 ± 0.04 0.52 ± 0.04