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Instructions · What links here · Luis Méndez de Torres (talk: + · bio) · (log) · Copyvios report · reFill · Citation Bot · (Search: Google, Wikipedia) · Submitted 47 days ago by Smit1937 (talk: D · +) · Last edited 45 days ago by Smit1937

Luis Méndez de Torres was a Spanish entomologist who first observed that the largest bee in the colony was an egg-laying female and not a male king as previously thought. In his 1586 treatise "Short Tractate on the Cultivation and Care of Beehives" he did not use the term "queen bee", but "maessa de enjambre" which means "mistress of the swarm".^[1] ^[2]In the English speaking world this idea was first introduced by Charles Butler, and this discovery was conclusively proven when Jan Swammerdam discovered the female reproductive organs in the queen bee by microscopic dissection.^[3] He also published an overview of the laws concerning beekeeping in Seville.^[4]

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^ Kuffner, Emily (2020). "Eros in the Apiary: Bees and Beehives in Early Modern Spanish Erotic Literature". Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos. 44 (3): 641–665. doi:10.18192/rceh.v44i3.6360.
^ Mendez de Torres, Luis (2008). Tratado Breve De La Cultivacion y Cura de las Colmenas. Spain: Editorial Maxtor. p. 76. ISBN 9788497614757.
^ "The feminine monarchy, or, the history of bees | St John's College, University of Cambridge". www.joh.cam.ac.uk.
^ Méndez de Torres, Luis. Tratado Breve De La Cultivacion y Cura de las Colmenas, Ordenanzas de Colmenería de la Ciudad de Sevilla y de su Tierra (PDF). Seville: Junta de Andalucia. ISBN 8484741931.

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