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Hornets and Honey Bees: A Coevolutionary Arms Race between Ancient Adaptations and New Invasive Threats

open access: yesInsects, 2021
Hornets and honey bees have a long history of coevolution resulting in a plethora of captivating adaptations and counteradaptations between predator and prey.
Federico Cappa   +4 more
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A Potential Fungal Probiotic Aureobasidium melanogenum CK-CsC for the Western Honey Bee, Apis mellifera

open access: yesJournal of Fungi, 2021
Aureobasidium melanogenum has been used as an animal feed additive for improving thehealth of pets, however, it has not yet been applied in honey bees. Here, a fungal strain CK-CsC isolated from bee bread pollen, was identified as A.
Chih-Kuan Hsu   +2 more
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Effects of various sugar feeding choices on survival and tolerance of honey bee workers to low temperatures

open access: yesJournal of Entomological and Acarological Research, 2017
Beekeepers usually supply their colonies with alternatives to nectar (i.e. sugar feeding) during dearth periods of the year, especially cold times of winter.
H.F. Abou-Shaara
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Different Dynamics of Bacterial and Fungal Communities in Hive-Stored Bee Bread and Their Possible Roles: A Case Study from Two Commercial Honey Bees in China

open access: yesMicroorganisms, 2020
This study investigated both bacterial and fungal communities in corbicular pollen and hive-stored bee bread of two commercial honey bees, Apis mellifera and Apis cerana, in China.
Terd Disayathanoowat   +6 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Bumble bee forager abundance on lowland heaths is predicated by specific floral availability rather than the presence of honey bee foragers: evidence for forage resource partitioning

open access: yesJournal of Pollination Ecology, 2018
Honey bees are being scrutinized for their potential impact upon wild bees. In lowland heath mosaics, a simple but resource rich habitat for pollinators, there is a higher probability of niche overlap for bumble bees and honey bees due to the requirement
Elizabeth Franklin   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Evaluating competition for forage plants between honey bees and wild bees in Denmark.

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2021
A recurrent concern in nature conservation is the potential competition for forage plants between wild bees and managed honey bees. Specifically, that the highly sophisticated system of recruitment and large perennial colonies of honey bees quickly ...
Claus Rasmussen   +12 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Honey Bee [PDF]

open access: yesNature, 1891
THE interior economy of the hive is known intimately to every bee-keeper; with the anatomy of its makers, rulers, citizens, not one in a hundred is familiar. The mass of facts accumulated during two centuries of discovery lies for the most part embalmed in the Proceedings of Societies, locked up in costly monographs, untranslated from foreign languages:
openaire   +2 more sources

Africanized bees extend their distribution in California. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2018
Africanized honey bees (Apis mellifera) arrived in the western hemisphere in the 1950s and quickly spread north reaching California in the 1990s. These bees are highly defensive and somewhat more difficult to manage for commercial purposes than the ...
Wei Lin   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Early-Life Sublethal Thiacloprid Exposure to Honey Bee Larvae: Enduring Effects on Adult Bee Cognitive Abilities

open access: yesToxics, 2023
Honey bees have significant ecological and economic value as important pollinators, but they are continuously exposed to various environmental stressors, including insecticides, which can impair their health and cause colony decline.
Xiasang Chen   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

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