In lowbush blueberry fields, we conducted residue analysis comparing flowers, trapped pollen (honey bee and Osmia spp.), and collected bees (honey bee workers, bumble bee queens, and non-Bombus spp. wild native bees). The study was conducted from 2012 to
Francis A. Drummond +2 more
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INVESTIGATION OF SOME PHYSICOCHEMICAL AND ANTIOXIDANT PROPERTIES OF BEE POLLEN FOR ATHLETES [PDF]
Bee products include honey, pollen, propolis, royal jelly and bee bread consists mainly of carbohydrates (CHO), minerals, and vitamins which are properties that are believed able to improve performance and general human health. Especially, bee pollen can
Mehmet Rüştü Karaman
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Chemical characterization of bee pollen is of great importance for its quality estimation. Multifloral and unifloral bee pollen samples collected from continental, mountain and Adriatic regions of Croatia were analyzed by means of physico-chemical ...
Saša Prđun +4 more
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Palynological origin, Total Phenolic and Flavonoid contents and Antioxidant Properties of honey bee-collected pollen from Matelica (Marche, Italy): A seasonal analysis [PDF]
Nowadays honey-bee collected pollen represents an apicultural product of great commercial interest due to its high nutritional value. Pollen is, in fact, generally referred to as a super-food; it contains high level of proteins (from 10% up to 40 ...
Antonietta La Terza +2 more
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Reliability of the entomovector technology using Prestop-Mix and Bombus terrestris L. as a fungal disease biocontrol method in open field [PDF]
Botrytis cinerea Pers.: Fr. is a major plant pathogen, and a new approach is needed for its control in strawberry to minimise the increasing use of synthetic fungicides.
Dreyersdorff, Gerit +7 more
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Preliminary study on effect of agricultural activities in pollen spectrum of argentinean honey [PDF]
Honey floral origin is determined by the harversting region, but anthropogenic factors as agriculture expansion might modify the environmental flora and consequently honey floral origin.
Fagundez, Guillermina Andrea +2 more
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Harvest Season Significantly Influences the Fatty Acid Composition of Bee Pollen
Seasonal variations in the fatty acid (FA) compositions of pollen loads collected from the Al-Ahsa Oasis in eastern Saudi Arabia throughout one year were determined to identify the optimal season for harvesting bee pollen rich in essential fatty acids ...
Saad N. Al-Kahtani +5 more
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Too Low to Kill: Concentration of the Secondary Metabolite Ranunculin in Buttercup Pollen does not Affect Bee Larval Survival [PDF]
Growing evidence suggests that the freely accessible pollen of some plants is chemically protected against pollen-feeding flower visitors. For example, a diet of pollen from buttercup plants (Ranunculus) recently was shown to have a deleterious effect on
Dorn, Silvia +3 more
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Physical and Microbiological Characteristics and Antioxidant Activity of Honey Bee Pollen
This study aimed to evaluate the physical, chemical, and microbiological characteristics of bee-collected pollen, with special consideration to the antimicrobial resistance of the isolated microorganisms to the selected antibiotics.
Evita Straumite +4 more
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Getting more than a fair share: nutrition of worker larvae related to social parasitism in the Cape honey bee Apis mellifera capensis [PDF]
Besides activation of ovaries and thelytokous reproduction of Cape workers, larval nutrition is an important aspect in parasitism of the African honey bee.
Allsopp, M.H. +3 more
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