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

Insects, 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, Alessandro Cini, Laura Bortolotti, Juliette Poidatz, Rita Cervo   +4 more
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Effects of various sugar feeding choices on survival and tolerance of honey bee workers to low temperatures

Journal 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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A Potential Fungal Probiotic Aureobasidium melanogenum CK-CsC for the Western Honey Bee, Apis mellifera

Journal 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, Dun-Yan Wang, Ming-Cheng Wu   +2 more
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Does the waggle dance help honey bees to forage at greater distances than expected for their body size? [PDF]

, 2015
A honey bee colony has been likened to an oil company. Some members of the company or colony prospect for valuable liquid resources. When these are discovered other group members can be recruited to exploit the resource. The recruitment of nestmates to a
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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

Journal 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, Tadhg Carroll, Debborah Blake, Kate Rickard, Anita Diaz   +4 more
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Evaluating competition for forage plants between honey bees and wild bees in Denmark.

PLoS 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, Yoko L Dupont, Henning Bang Madsen, Petr Bogusch, Dave Goulson, Lina Herbertsson, Kate Pereira Maia, Anders Nielsen, Jens M Olesen, Simon G Potts, Stuart P M Roberts, Markus Arne Kjær Sydenham, Per Kryger   +12 more
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Forager bees (Apis mellifera) highly express immune and detoxification genes in tissues associated with nectar processing. [PDF]

, 2015
Pollinators, including honey bees, routinely encounter potentially harmful microorganisms and phytochemicals during foraging. However, the mechanisms by which honey bees manage these potential threats are poorly understood.
Johnson, Brian R, Mohamed, Abbas, Vannette, Rachel L   +2 more
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RNA viruses in hymenopteran pollinators : evidence of inter-taxa virus transmission via pollen and potential impact on non-Apis hymenopteran species [PDF]

, 2007
Although overall pollinator populations have declined over the last couple of decades, the honey bee (Apis mellifera) malady, colony collapse disorder (CCD), has caused major concern in the agricultural community.
Singh, Rajwinder, Levitt, Abby L., Rajotte, Edwin G., Holmes, Edward C., Ostiguy, Nancy, vanEngelsdorp, Dennis, Lipkin, W. Ian, dePamphilis, Claude W., Toth, Amy L., Cox-Foster, Diana L.   +9 more
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Early-Life Sublethal Thiacloprid Exposure to Honey Bee Larvae: Enduring Effects on Adult Bee Cognitive Abilities

Toxics, 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, Airui Li, Linghong Yin, Li Ke, Pingli Dai, Yong-Jun Liu   +5 more
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Africanized bees extend their distribution in California. [PDF]

PLoS 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, Jakob McBroome, Mahwish Rehman, Brian R Johnson   +3 more
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