High-Quality Queens Produce High-Quality Offspring Queens
Honey bees, rather than rear queens with eggs and larvae from worker cells, prefer to rear new queens with eggs form queen cells, if available. This may be a result of long-term evolutionary process for honey bee colonies. However, the exact mechanism of
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Organic beekeeping in Russia [PDF]
In our research firstly we provide to generalized conceptual basis for the characteristics of organic beekeeping in Russia, second determine the impact of organic beekeeping on the productivity and the third quality of beekeeping products, to assess the ...
Osintseva L.A. +4 more
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Physicochemical Quality Characteristics of Southeastern Anatolia Honey, Turkey
This study was performed to investigate the physicochemical quality characteristics of honey produced in Southeastern Anatolia of Turkey. A total of 68 honey samples collected from different beekeepers were analyzed for sugar components, moisture, pH ...
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Тhe influence of the removal bee pollen with the pollen catcher on the flight activity and behaviour of the bees-polen collectors [PDF]
The possibility of demonstration of the productivity potential of the bee families depends directly on the level of provision of protein feed. In this regard, the study of the bees behavior that is connected to harvesting and processing of protein food ...
Mishchenko O. +3 more
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Ethnobotanical study on plants used for traditional beekeeping by Dulong people in Yunnan, China
Background The Dulong (Drung) people have used plant materials in traditional beekeeping for many decades. However, there are few studies on the plants used in traditional beekeeping.
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An iconic traditional apiculture of park fringe communities of Borena Sayint National Park, north eastern Ethiopia [PDF]
Background: Traditional apiculture has been practised in Ethiopia over a long historical period and still remains a benign means to extract direct benefits from natural ecosystems.
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Colony losses in Scotland in 2004-2006 from a sample survey [PDF]
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 ...
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The biochemical analyses of the blood are largely used for the routine diagnosis and especially for the metabolic survey in farm animals. These facts conduct us to the idea that similar analyses, applied on honeybee hemolymph, could be used IN monitoring
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First detection of Paenibacillus larvae the causative agent of American Foulbrood in a Ugandan honeybee colony [PDF]
Paenibacillus larvae is a highly contagious and often lethal widely distributed pathogen of honeybees, Apis mellifera but has not been reported in eastern Africa to date. We investigated the presence of P.
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Honey bee maternal effects improve worker performance and reproductive ability in offspring
Maternal effects are an evolutionary strategy used to improve offspring quality. In an example of maternal effects in honey bees (Apis mellifera), mother queens produce larger eggs in queen cells than in worker cells in order to breed better daughter ...
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