| Breeding bumblebees in captivity consists of a series of technologies. The present thesis studied 3 of them on B. lucorum, the effects of different stimulation methods on queens oviposition, the copulation of males and females, the effects of environment temperature on colony development. The results are as follows:1) The different stimulation methods (CK, SY, SY1, SY2, SY3, SY4, MY, MY 1, MY2, MY3, MY4) had been adopted to stimulate queens to start egg laying in the study. The stimulator with 2-3 honeybee workers (SY2, SY3, MY2, MY3) are the better methods among them, it can improve queens laying and colony development, increase the rate of queens laying and the rate of adult colony, shorten the initiation time of queens laying and the adult time of colony. But there is no difference between different stimulator SY and MY on queens laying and colony development.2) The copulation of bumblebees in captivity is relate to the days of queen and drone, the rate of male and female, the density of queens in mating cage, the illumination of environment. The mating rate of queens is keeping ahead under 8 days queen with 11-12 days drone according to 1 : 5 of female and male. In order to get the higher mating rate, the number of queens in the mating cage should be limited to 30, the mating cage should be put in the mating room with the light in cloudy day and outside the mating room in the sunny day.3 ) Temperature is one of the main environment factors which effect queens laying and colonies development. The developing period of colonies incline to decrease and the rate of adult colonies goes up when temperature is rising in the range of 25 C ~ 30 C, the initiation time of queens laying, the developing time of queen's first brood, the adult time of colonies are shortest under 29 C condition, and the rate of adult colonies is highest, in addition, the quantity of first generation queens is reached top among the range of experiment temperature.
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