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When honeybees come to town: Critical aspects of urban beekeeping and opportunities for regulation
Abstract Urban areas are increasingly valued for their role in conserving wild pollinators. Honeybees are often regarded as ambassador species for pollinator conservation, and beekeeping is frequently perceived as a pro‐biodiversity activity, which has become highly popular in urban areas.
Joan Casanelles‐Abella +5 more
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Differences Between European and African Honey Bees
ENY147, a 3-page illustrated fact sheet by M. K. O’Malley, J. D. Ellis, and C. M. Zettel Nalen, describes key differences between the aggressive African bee and the docile European honey bee, including hive defense and stinging, swarming and absconding, and selection of nesting site. Includes additional resources.
Michael K. O'Malley +2 more
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African honey bees (Apis mellifera scutellata) are native to sub-Saharan Africa and were introduced in the Americas to improve honey production in the tropics. These African honey bees were accidentally released and began to interbreed with European honey bees (Apis mellifera ligustica), the most common subspecies used for pollination and honey ...
Hodgson, Erin W. +3 more
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The occurrence of ecto-parasitic Leptus sp. mites on Africanized honey bees
Honey bee-mite-pathogen associations have led to the widespread collapse of Apis mellifera colonies in various parts of the world. The global trade in bees continues to expose honey bees to new pests and pathogens.
S. Martin, M. E. Correia-Oliveira
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ABSTRACT This study seeks to better understand the unique sensemaking assets that rural families weave into their outdoor learning experience while using a location‐based mobile app focused on healthy habitats for solitary bees. The project included mobile augmented reality (AR) technologies, which are increasingly used as educational tools at informal
Lucy R. McClain +3 more
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The Role of Companion Animals as ‘Sentinels’ From the One Health Perspective
One Health emphasizes the interconnection of human, animal and environmental health. As emotional extensions of humans, companion dogs and cats can serve as sentinels, detecting hazards that can help protect human health from the One Health perspective. When symptoms appear in pets, owners should notice the changes that may pose risks to both human and
Shenchen Kang, Yu Chen, Mengmeng Liu
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What do communicating with a baby, with an animal, and with an ancestor have in common? In all three cases, people engage in opaque communication that is far from the standard psycholinguistic model of transparent interaction based on shared intentionality.
Charles Stépanoff
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ABSTRACT Using data from over 4,000 Black Lives Matter (BLM) protests across 600 U.S. counties from 2014 to 2021, we examine how BLM activism shapes corporate diversity at different organizational levels. We develop an approach integrating OpenAI's GPT‐4 with Chain‐of‐Thought prompting to classify race and ethnicity.
KELVIN K. F. LAW, JINGDAN TAN
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Honey bees obtain nutrients from pollen they collect and store in the hive as beebread. We developed methods to control the pollen source that bees collect and convert to beebread by placing colonies in a specially constructed enclosed flight area ...
G. DeGrandi-Hoffman +2 more
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Phenological growth stages of Greyia radlkoferi: The phenological growth stages of Greyia radlkoferi were monitored for a period of 3 years from 2018, 2019 and 2020. The flower budding, bud burst, flowering, fading, fruiting, seeding, leaf senescence and vegetative stage were recorded. The tyrosinase inhibitory activity of G.
Joseph Malele +3 more
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