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Marketing Tips for Small-scale, Local Honey Bee Keepers in Northwest Arkansas [PDF]

, 2017
The objective of this thesis was to gain market information for beekeepers regarding different honey bee products and to provide information about economic feasibility when produced on a small, local scale.
Goll, Samuel L., Popp, Jennie S., Popp, Michael P., Steinkraus, Donald C.   +3 more
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Beekeeping Production System, Challenges, and Opportunities in Selected Districts of South Wollo Zone, Amhara, Ethiopia

Advances in Agriculture, 2021
The study was conducted in Tehulederie, Kalu, and Dessie Zuria districts of South Wollo Zone, Amhara, Ethiopia, to assess the current beekeeping production system with available opportunities and challenges facing the beekeeping subsector.
Addisu Bihonegn, Desalegn Begna
doaj   +1 more source

Potential Correlation Between Bombus lantschouensis Thoracic Morphology and Flight Behavior

Integrative Zoology, EarlyView.
Potential correlation between Bombus lantschouensis thoracic morphology and flight behavior. ABSTRACT Remarkably little modern work has investigated the thoracic structures of insects and their relationship to flight locomotion. Most studies focus exclusively on either morphology or flight kinematics.
Wenjie Li, Sipei Liu, Le Zong, Zhengzhong Huang, Lei Jiang, Xiaokun Liu, Pingping Yang, Yitian Zhang, Zhong Du, Weili Fan, Zhuanghui Qin, Xieshuang Wang, Xinying Zhang, Xiaolong Wang, Haodong Yin, Jiandong An, Chaodong Zhu, Michael C. Orr, Jiangning Wang, Siqin Ge   +19 more
wiley   +1 more source

Beekeepers Problems in AL-Diwaniyah City [PDF]

Al-Qadisiyah Journal For Agriculture Sciences, 2013
The importance of beekeeping is manifested in its products ,its roles in pollinating flowers and increasing crop production .The development of beekeeping projects depends on identifying the problems faced by , and find appropriate solutions .
Bassim H.Kshash
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Diagnosing scaling bottlenecks in 10 community conservation initiatives in southern and eastern Africa

Conservation Biology, EarlyView.
Scaling area‐based conservation, including initiatives led or comanaged by Indigenous Peoples and local communities, is a flagship goal of the Kunming‐Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework. Conservationists often aspire to scale initiatives, but this is rarely achieved in practice. Identifying and addressing factors that limit initiative adoption (i.e.
Thomas Pienkowski, Matt Clark, Arundhati Jagadish, Aklei Albert, Mohanjeet Brar, Tarn Breedveld, Linda Chinangwa, Deepali Gohil, Deziderius Irumba, Ramzy Kanaan, Rose Peter Kicheleri, Phillip Kihumuro, Wilhelm Andrew Kiwango, Mathew Bukhi Mabele, Paul Matiku, Gimbage Mbeyale, Musingo Tito E. Mbuvi, Arthur Mugisha, Stanley Mwango, Iddi Mwanyoka, Robson Nyirenda, Geoffrey Oula, Jón Geir Pétursson, Taddeo Rusoke, Nelson Turyahabwe, Moses Kazungu, Lessah Mandoloma, Charles Meshack, Kaala B. Moombe, Francis Moyo, Victor K. Muposhi, Amos Ochieng, Edwin Sabuhoro, Anna Spenceley, Emmanuel Sulle, David Mwesigye Tumusiime, Paulo Wilfred, Peadar Brehony, Elias Damtew Assef, Morena Mills   +39 more
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Socio‐psychological determinants of beekeeper conflict with bee‐eaters

Conservation Science and Practice, EarlyView.
This study investigates factors influencing beekeepers’ use of lethal control against native bee‐eaters in Iran using the theory of planned behavior. Experience, social norms, intentions, and economic dependence significantly predicted using lethal control methods.
Danial Nayeri, Logan Hysen, Daniel Pilgreen, Reyhane Rastgoo, Pourya Sardari, Alireza Mohammadi, Seyed Mohammadreza Kashfi, Ashley Dayer, Gerard Kyle   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Mapping the teaching of honeybee veterinary medicine in the European Union and European Free Trade Area [PDF]

, 2019
Background Honey bee (Apis mellifera) is a very important species for human beings, animals, environmental biodiversity, crop production and economic sustainability in Europe and worldwide. This study investigates whether future veterinarians are trained
Bravo, Ana, De Briyne, Nancy, Iatridou, Despoina, Pohl, Laura, Saunders, Jimmy, Tlak Gajger, Ivana   +5 more
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Bee community and trait‐based responses to fire in a Mediterranean landscape

Insect Conservation and Diversity, EarlyView.
Fire drives a short‐term increase in bee abundance and diversity, despite its strong negative impact on floral resources. Acting as an environmental filter, fire shapes bee communities as increased post‐fire fine‐scale heterogeneity favors bees with specific functional traits such as ground‐nesting and generalist species.
Georgios Nakas, Aphrodite Kantsa, Lazaros Neokosmidis, Jelle Devalez, Thomas Tscheulin, Nikos Koutsias, Mark C. Mescher, Consuelo M. De Moraes, Theodora Petanidou   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Colony losses in Scotland in 2004-2006 from a sample survey [PDF]

, 2009
In the early summer of 2006, a postal survey of beekeeping in Scotland was carried out on behalf of the Executive of the Scottish Beekeepers' Association (SBA), to obtain an overview of some general aspects of current beekeeping practice and experience ...
Gray, Alison, Peterson, Magnus, Teale, Alan   +2 more
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Honey Bee Pollination of Camellia oleifera and Mitigation of Toxic Crop Nectar

Insects
Tea oil tree (Camellia oleifera), a woody oil crop native to Southern China, relies on insect pollination for fruit and seed production. However, its nectar is toxic to honey bees (Apis spp.) due to their inability to digest the oligosaccharide present ...
Feng Liu, Pingli Dai, Weiliang Zhou, Jinghua Hu, Fang Yuan, Xijian Xu, Wujun Jiang, Qun Luo, Huijun Huang, Ge Zhang, Wuguang Ye   +10 more
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