Queen Quality and the Impact of Honey Bee Diseases on Queen Health: Potential for Interactions between Two Major Threats to Colony Health [PDF]
Insects, 2017 Western honey bees, Apis mellifera, live in highly eusocial colonies that are each typically headed by a single queen. The queen is the sole reproductive female in a healthy colony, and because long-term colony survival depends on her ability to produce ...
Esmaeil Amiri +3 more
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Longitudinal monitoring of honey bee colonies reveals dynamic nature of virus abundance and indicates a negative impact of Lake Sinai virus 2 on colony health [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2020 Honey bees (Apis mellifera) are important pollinators of plants, including those that produce nut, fruit, and vegetable crops. Therefore, high annual losses of managed honey bee colonies in the United States and many other countries threaten global ...
Cayley Faurot-Daniels +6 more
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Honey bee (Apis mellifera) colony health and pathogen composition in migratory beekeeping operations involved in California almond pollination. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2017 Honey bees are important pollinators of agricultural crops. Pathogens and other factors have been implicated in high annual losses of honey bee colonies in North America and some European countries.
William Glenny +5 more
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Assessment of chronic sublethal effects of imidacloprid on honey bee colony health. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 Here we present results of a three-year study to determine the fate of imidacloprid residues in hive matrices and to assess chronic sublethal effects on whole honey bee colonies fed supplemental pollen diet containing imidacloprid at 5, 20 and 100 μg/kg ...
Galen P Dively +4 more
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Enhanced Honey Bee Colony Strength and Economic Returns from Fall and Winter Feeding with a Complete Pollen-Replacing Feed [PDF]
InsectsPoor nutrition is a known contributing factor to ongoing high rates of honey bee colony mortality. Beekeepers invest significant resources to provide supplemental feeds to their colonies, but currently available diets are nutritionally incomplete.
Kelly Kulhanek +4 more
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Resin Use by Stingless Bees: A Review
Insects, 2021 Stingless bees (Meliponini) are highly social bees that are native to tropical and sub-tropical ecosystems. Resin use is vital to many aspects of stingless bee colony function. Stingless bees use resin to build essential nest structures, repel predators,
Maggie Shanahan, Marla Spivak
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Honey Bee Queens and Virus Infections
Viruses, 2020 The honey bee queen is the central hub of a colony to produce eggs and release pheromones to maintain social cohesion. Among many environmental stresses, viruses are a major concern to compromise the queen’s health and reproductive vigor.
Esmaeil Amiri +3 more
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Meta-analysis of honey bee neurogenomic response links deformed wing virus type A to precocious behavioral maturation [PDF]
, 2020 Crop pollination by the western honey bee Apis mellifera is vital to agriculture but threatened by alarmingly high levels of colony mortality, especially in Europe and North America.
Ahmed, Amy Cash +7 more
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Colonialism, science, and health [PDF]
Boletín Médico del Hospital Infantil de México, 2020 In addition to genocide, slavery, and the dispossession of indigenous people, colonialism, as a form of control, meant the suppression of traditional knowledge. The imposition of Christianity, the modern Western paradigm, and modern science that followed perpetrated this suppression.
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