Thiamethoxam impairs honey bee visual learning, alters decision times, and increases abnormal behaviors. [PDF]
, 2020 Learning is important for honey bee fitness and the pollination services that they provide. Neonicotinoid pesticides impair learning, fitness, colony health, and pollination, but most studies on how they affect bee learning have focused on olfactory ...
Ludicke, Joshua C, Nieh, James C
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A review of selected bee products as potential anti-bacterial, anti-fungal, and anti-viral agents [PDF]
, 2016 Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is one of the greatest medical challenges the world faces. It was estimated recently that by 2050, AMR will account for 10 million extra deaths annually with additional economic costs in the region of $100 trillion.
Brown, Helen Louise +3 more
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A landscape genetics approach to unravel the complex evolutionary history of the Iberian honey bee hybrid zone [PDF]
, 2010 While landscape genetics is in its infancy, it is a rapidly growing research field in part owing to the increasing availability of powerful molecular and analytical tools.
Azevedo, João +7 more
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Frontiers in MicrobiologyCamellia reticulata, an ancient plant species endemic to Yunnan Province, China, remains underexplored in terms of its endophytic bacterial communities. The plant tissue pedicel serves as the connection between the flower and the stem, not only delivers ...
Qingxin Meng +10 more
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Shared and unique microbes between Small hive beetles (Aethina tumida) and their honey bee hosts
MicrobiologyOpen, 2019 The small hive beetle (SHB) is an opportunistic parasite that feeds on bee larvae, honey, and pollen. While SHBs can also feed on fruit and other plant products, like its plant‐feeding relatives, SHBs prefer to feed on hive resources and only reproduce ...
Qiang Huang, Dawn Lopez, Jay D. Evans
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Vertical transmission of honey bee viruses in a Belgian queen breeding program [PDF]
, 2015 Background: The Member States of European Union are encouraged to improve the general conditions for the production and marketing of apicultural products. In Belgium, programmes on the restocking of honey bee hives have run for many years.
de Graaf, Dirk +3 more
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The impact of honey bees on montane ecosystems within Tongariro National Park : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Ecology at Massey University [PDF]
, 1996 A study of the effects of honey bees on montane ecosystems was conducted during the summers of 1993/1994 and 1994/1995 at Tongariro National Park. Three possible effects of the introduced honey bee were examined.
Murphy, Claire
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Chasing the honey bee: enhancing leadership for sustainability [PDF]
This paper explores the ways in which different conceptions of leadership can contribute to the sustainability of economic productivity, social equity and, of course, the natural systems and resources upon which all social and economic development depend.
John Fien
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Scanning electron microscopic studies on tongue of open-nesting honey bees Apis dorsata F. and Apis florea F. (Hymenoptera: Apidae) [PDF]
, 2015 Taste stimuli play vital role in the life of honey bees. Sensory structures observed on tongue of the honey bees with the help of Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) have become an important tool in analyzing honey bee biodiversity which offers an ...
Anudeep, Anudeep +3 more
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Journal of Apicultural Science, 2012 Celem badań była ocena narażenia rodzin pszczelich na toksyczne oddziaływanie pozostałości systemicznych insektycydów neonikotynoidowych zastosowanych w warunkach polowych do chemicznej ochrony upraw rzepaku.
Pohorecka Krystyna +10 more
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