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Comparing Alternative Methods for Holding Virgin Honey Bee Queens for One Week in Mailing Cages before Mating ¨ ¤ Gianluigi Bigio*, Christoph Gruter , Francis L. W. Ratnieks Laboratory of Apiculture and Social Insects, School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton, United Kingdom Abstract In beekeeping, queen honey bees are often temporarily kept alive in cages. We determined the survival of newly-emerged virgin honey bee queens every day for seven days in an experiment that simultaneously investi