Diurnal Temperature and Time Affect Visitation Patterns of Honey Bees
SociobiologyTemperature is one of the most important environmental factors affecting honey bee activity, while ambient temperature varies widely during the daytime.
Deng-Fei Li +7 more
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Specificity Between Lactobacilli And Hymenopteran Hosts Is The Exception Rather Than The Rule [PDF]
, 2013 Lactobacilli (Lactobacillales: Lactobacillaceae) are well known for their roles in food fermentation, as probiotics, and in human health, but they can also be dominant members of the microbiota of some species of Hymenoptera (ants, bees, and wasps ...
Cannone, Jamie J. +5 more
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Does Flower Morphology affect Honey Bee Preference? [PDF]
, 2018 Considering honey bee populations are at threat of declining. Flower preference is important to understand how we can attempt to preserve their habitats.
Kim, Tania, Lofing, Madison
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Honey Bee and Bumble Bee Antiviral Defense [PDF]
Viruses, 2018 Bees are important plant pollinators in both natural and agricultural ecosystems. Managed and wild bees have experienced high average annual colony losses, population declines, and local extinctions in many geographic regions. Multiple factors, including virus infections, impact bee health and longevity.
Alexander J. McMenamin +4 more
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Food Chemistry International, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In this study, honey produced from Apocynum venetum L. was collected from BC (Bachu County), SY (Shaya County), and YL (Yuli County) in Xinjiang. The basic physical and chemical properties of the honey, and the contents of total phenols, total flavonoids, and amino acids were analyzed, and 16 types of polyphenols were quantified using triple ...
Na Zhang +5 more
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Possible Spillover of Pathogens between Bee Communities Foraging on the Same Floral Resource
Insects, 2021 Viruses are known to contribute to bee population decline. Possible spillover is suspected from the co-occurrence of viruses in wild bees and honey bees.
Anne Dalmon +7 more
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Knowing the honey bee : a multispecies ethnography : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Social Anthropology at Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand [PDF]
, 2017 Multispecies scholarship argues that the non-human has been relegated to the background of discussions about who and what inhabits and shapes the world.
Luttrell, Jordan
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Insect‐Derived Bioactives for Glycemic Control and Gut Health: A Review
Food Frontiers, EarlyView.Insect‐derived bioactive compounds (e.g., peptides, polysaccharides) effectively regulate blood glucose through dual mechanisms: directly inhibiting carbohydrate‐digesting enzymes and glucose transporters, and indirectly modulating gut microbiota to enhance intestinal barrier integrity.
Chaoyi Lv +5 more
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Comparison of acute effects of heroin and Kerack on sensory and motor activity of honey bees (Apis mellifera) [PDF]
Iranian Journal of Basic Medical Sciences, 2015 Objective(s):Previous studies demonstrated a functional similarity between vertebrate and honey bee nervous systems. The aim of the present study was to compare the effects of heroin and Iranian street Kerack, a combination of heroin and caffeine, on ...
Majid Hassanpour-Ezatti
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Honey bee colonies performance enhance by newly modified beehives
Journal of Apicultural Science, 2013 Honey bees have good thermoregulation and rapidly respond to any changes in the microclimatic conditions of their colonies. However, colony losses can occur during very cold or hot months.
Abou-Shaara Hossam F. +2 more
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