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Maternal Inheritance in Hybrids of Three Honey Bee Subspecies

Journal of Apicultural Science, 2019
The identification of honey bee (Apis mellifera) subspecies is often based on the measurements of workers’ fore-wings. The interpretation of the measurements can be difficult because the phenotype of workers is affected by both genetic and environmental ...
Węgrzynowicz Paweł, Gerula Dariusz, Tofilski Adam, Panasiuk Beata, Bieńkowska Małgorzata   +4 more
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Investigation of Volatile Compounds in Combination with Multivariate Analysis for the Characterization of Monofloral Honeys

Applied Sciences, 2021
Lately there has been a growing demand for monofloral honeys with distinctive properties. Considering the limitations of pollen analysis, the volatile profile of honey has been proposed as a helpful supplementary tool for the confirmation of ...
Chrysoula Tananaki, Vasilios Liolios, Dimitrios Kanelis, Maria Anna Rodopoulou   +3 more
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The Ritual Aspects of Ukrainian Beekeeping

EtnoAntropologia, 2020
The article deals to research of Ukrainian ritual context of apiculture. The complex research of symbolic and semantic aspects of Ukrainian apiculture is based on separation of three fundamental ritual “units”: folk Ukrainian vision of a bee along with ...
Uliana Movna
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Balling Behavior of Workers Toward Honey Bee Queens Returning from Mating Flights

Journal of Apicultural Science, 2018
During natural mating honeybee queens can get lost due to drifting, predators or other cases. In this work, the balling of queens returning from flights by worker bees originating from the same colony was observed.
Gerula Dariusz, Panasiuk Beata, Bieńkowska Małgorzata, Węgrzynowicz Paweł   +3 more
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A Comparative Study of Healthy and American Foulbrood-Infected Bee Brood (Apis mellifera L.) through the Investigation of Volatile Compounds

Agriculture, 2022
American Foulbrood (AFB) is a major endemic disease affecting the bee brood and the absence of chemical therapeutic treatments leads beekeepers to develop alternative management plans, based mainly on the prevention and accurate diagnosis of symptoms ...
Vasilios Liolios, Dimitrios Kanelis, Chrysoula Tananaki, Maria-Anna Rodopoulou   +3 more
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Bee Bread Cells in Honey Super Distort The Results of Pollen Analysis of Honey

Journal of Apicultural Science, 2018
The pollen analysis is currently the only reliable test to determine honey variety, but the results are sometimes burdened with error. The main reason for this is additional pollen that got into honey in a way other than with nectar collected by bees but
Teper Dariusz, Semkiw Piotr, Skubida Piotr, Borański Mikołaj   +3 more
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Application of Gas Chromatography with the Mass Detector (GC-MS) Technique for Detection of Beeswax Adulteration with Paraffin

Journal of Apicultural Science, 2015
To detect beeswax adulteration with hydrocarbons of alien origin (e.g. paraffin), gas chromatography with mass detector (GC-MS) technique was used. The method has been verified here on beeswax samples with different addition (3, 5, 10, 30, and 50%) of ...
Waś Ewa, Szczęsna Teresa, Rybak-Chmielewska Helena   +2 more
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Intra-dance variation among waggle runs and the design of efficient protocols for honey bee dance decoding

Biology Open, 2012
Summary Noise is universal in information transfer. In animal communication, this presents a challenge not only for intended signal receivers, but also to biologists studying the system.
Margaret J. Couvillon, Fiona C. Riddell Pearce, Elisabeth L. Harris-Jones, Amanda M. Kuepfer, Samantha J. Mackenzie-Smith, Laura A. Rozario, Roger Schürch, Francis L. W. Ratnieks   +7 more
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Transcriptomic Analysis of the Cold Resistance Mechanisms During Overwintering in Apis mellifera

Insects
Safe overwintering is a challenging issue in rearing management that is inevitably faced by beekeepers in high-latitude regions. Under the combined influence of multiple factors, the overwintering loss rate of Western honey bees has risen continuously ...
Xiaoyin Deng, Yali Du, Jiaxu Wu, Jinming He, Haibin Jiang, Yuling Liu, Qingsheng Niu, Kai Xu   +7 more
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Genetic and Transcriptomic Basis of Enhanced Nectar and Resin Foraging in Honey Bees

Agriculture
The collection of honey and propolis is crucial for the nutrition and health of honey bee colonies. In this study, Apis mellifera with high productivity for both honey and propolis (MJ) was developed through long-term selective breeding using Apis ...
Haibin Jiang, Kai Xu, Xiaoyin Deng, Yali Du, Yuling Liu, Qingsheng Niu   +5 more
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