Waste management in the stingless bee Melipona beecheii Bennett (Hymenoptera: Apidae) [PDF]
, 2014 Waste management is important in insect societies because waste can be hazardous to adults, brood and food stores. The general organization of waste management and the influence of task partitioning, division of labor and age polyethism on waste ...
Hart, Adam G +2 more
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PLoS ONE, 2022 Honey bees are crucial for pollination services globally and produce important hive products including honey, royal jelly, pollen, and propolis that are being used commercially in food, cosmetics, and alternative medicinal purposes.
Khalid Ali Khan, Hamed A Ghramh
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A strong immune response in young adult honeybees masks their increased susceptibility to infection compared to older bees [PDF]
, 2012 Honeybees, Apis mellifera, show age-related division of labor in which young adults perform maintenance ("housekeeping") tasks inside the colony before switching to outside foraging at approximately 23 days old. Disease resistance is an important feature
Baxter, Laura +8 more
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Why honey is effective as a medicine. 1. Its use in modern medicine [PDF]
, 1999 Honey has been used as a medicine for thousands of years and its curative properties are well documented. However, modern medicine turned its back on honey and it is only now, with the advent of multi-resistant bacteria, that the antibiotic properties of
ADESUNKANMI K +63 more
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Kounis syndrome and atrial fibrillation after bee sting: A case report
Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care, 2022 Bee sting can lead to allergic reactions which can present as life-threatening emergencies. Kounis syndrome is an acute coronary syndrome caused by mast cell activation after exposure to an allergen.
Bharath Gopinath +3 more
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A Simple Iterative Model Accurately Captures Complex Trapline Formation by Bumblebees Across Spatial Scales and Flower Arrangements [PDF]
, 2013 PMCID: PMC3591286This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are ...
A Manning +41 more
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Odynophagia following retained bee stinger
Journal of Venomous Animals and Toxins including Tropical Diseases, 2012 Nearly half of Hymenoptera stings affect the head and neck region of victims, but reports on oropharyngeal bee stings are very few. We describe the case of a patient with odynophagia and suffocation in mass envenomation.
S Viswanathan +4 more
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Persistence of subclinical deformed wing virus infections in honeybees following Varroa mite removal and a bee population turnover. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2017 Deformed wing virus (DWV) is a lethal virus of honeybees (Apis mellifera) implicated in elevated colony mortality rates worldwide and facilitated through vector transmission by the ectoparasitic mite Varroa destructor.
Barbara Locke +3 more
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Behavioral modulation of the coexistence between Apis melifera and Varroa destructor: A defense against colony colapse disorder? [PDF]
, 2015 Colony Collapse Disorder has become a global problem for beekeepers and for the crops which depend on bee polination. Multiple factors are known to increase the risk of colony colapse, and the ectoparasitic mite Varroa destructor that parasitizes honey ...
Bliman, Pierre Alexandre +2 more
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The impacts of an invasive alien plant and its removal on native bees [PDF]
Apidologie, 2009 Although the alien Impatiens glandulifera successfully invades riparian habitats and is visited by native insects, knowledge of its impact on native bees is limited. We assessed pollinator abundance in field sites where I. glandulifera was absent, present or had been experimentally removed.
Caroline Marijke Nienhuis +2 more
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