Table 5.

Coefficients of correlation between the queen cells and body weight of newly emerged queens.

Traits	Queen cell opening diameter	Queen cell length (mm)	Newly emerged queen weight	Queen cell width
Queen cell width (mm)	±0.001	±0.052	±0.070	–
Queen cell length (mm)	± 0.342**	–	±0.021	±0.231
Newly emerged queen weight (g)	±0.028a	±0.171	–	±0.250
Queen cell opening diameter (mm)	–	±0.104ab	± 0.001	±-0.30

Results are revealed as average ± standard error (S.E.). Strength of correlation was projected as under: >0.6 = strong; 0.3–0.6 = moderate; <0.3 = weak