Abstract
SUMMARY Morphometric studies on the worker bee samples collected during various seasons revealed that many of the morphological characters such as length of flagellum, antenna, fore wing, radial cell, wing veins VL and IL vannal lobe, femur, tibia, third tergite, wax mirror, third and sixth sternites and breadth of hind wing showed significantly higher values for the samples collected during summer and autumn seasons as compared to those collected in other seasons. However, other morphological characters viz., tongue length, length of scape, hind wing, metatarsus, breadth of fore wing, radial cell etc. did not show any significant differences among bee samples collected during different seasons. Summer and autumn are the periods of maximum honeyflow in this region and it seems that strength of the colony and presence of surplus food for larvae affect the biometry of A.c. indica.
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