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Honey Bee Pollination of Camellia oleifera and Mitigation of Toxic Crop Nectar

Insects
Tea oil tree (Camellia oleifera), a woody oil crop native to Southern China, relies on insect pollination for fruit and seed production. However, its nectar is toxic to honey bees (Apis spp.) due to their inability to digest the oligosaccharide present ...
Feng Liu, Pingli Dai, Weiliang Zhou, Jinghua Hu, Fang Yuan, Xijian Xu, Wujun Jiang, Qun Luo, Huijun Huang, Ge Zhang, Wuguang Ye   +10 more
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Colour reverse learning and animal personalities: the advantage of behavioural diversity assessed with agent-based simulations [PDF]

, 2012
Foraging bees use colour cues to help identify rewarding from unrewarding flowers, but as conditions change, bees may require behavioural flexibility to reverse their learnt preferences.
Adrian G. Dyer, Alan Dorin, Marcello G. P. Rosa, Verena Reinhardt   +3 more
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Elevated virulence of an emerging viral genotype as a driver of honeybee loss

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2016
Emerging infectious diseases (EIDs) have contributed significantly to the current biodiversity crisis, leading to widespread epidemics and population loss.
D. McMahon, M. Natsopoulou, Vincent Doublet, M. Fürst, S. Weging, Mark J. F. Brown, A. Gogol-Döring, R. Paxton   +7 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Diet breadth shapes gut microbiota in the invasive hornet Vespa velutina

Insect Conservation and Diversity, EarlyView.
Dietary and microbial profiles of V. velutina larvae are dominated by Apidae and Firmicutes, respectively. DNA metabarcoding of larval meconium and gut samples reveals a significant positive correlation between prey richness and bacterial diversity in the invasive hornet V. velutina. Multiple significant correlations exist between dietary and microbial
Cayetano Herrera, Iris Alemany, Mar Leza, José A. Jurado‐Rivera   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Towards dense object tracking in a 2D honeybee hive

, 2017
From human crowds to cells in tissue, the detection and efficient tracking of multiple objects in dense configurations is an important and unsolved problem.
Bozek, Katarzyna, Hebert, Laetitia, Mikheyev, Alexander S, Stephens, Greg J   +3 more
core   +2 more sources

Projected Climate‐Suitable Area for Apis mellifera (Apidae) and Its Spatial Overlap With a Mining Tailings Footprint in South‐East Brazil

Journal of Applied Entomology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Climate change and environmental disasters can jointly impact species distributions and ecosystem stability, including pollinators and the resources they rely on. We used occurrence and climate data to predict the distribution of Apis mellifera in the Doce River Basin, south‐east Brazil, under baseline and future scenarios (2050).
Flávio Mariano Machado Mota, Débora Lima‐Santos, Walisson Kenedy‐Siqueira, Kamilla Ingred Castelan Vieira, Geraldo Wilson Fernandes   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

TRIDENT Ice Mining Drill for Lunar Volatile Prospecting for PRIME-1 and VIPER Missions

The Planetary Science Journal
The Regolith and Ice Drill for Exploration of New Terrains (TRIDENT) is a 1 m class drill developed for capturing regolith and ice during the Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER) and the Polar Resources Ice Mining Experiment (PRIME-1 ...
Kris Zacny, Philip Chu, Vincent Vendiola, Gale Paulsen, Paul Creekmore, Samuel Goldman, Jameil Bailey, Philip Ng, Carter Fortuin, Jaqueline Stamboltsian, Alex Wang, Anchal Jain, Paul Chow, Emily Seto, Nicholas Bottomley, Robert Huddleston, Ezra Bailey-Kelly, Raymond Zheng, Aaron Norlinger, Isabel King, Zach Mank, Jack Wilson, Jake Fishman, Helen Xu, Dean Bergman, Erik Mumm, Kiel Davis, Jason Beck, Stella Dearing, Mark Hill, Jackie Quinn, Amy Eichenbaum, Janine Captain, Julie Kleinhenz, Anthony Colaprete, Rick Elphic, Kimberly Ennico-Smith, Darlene S. S. Lim, Zara Mirmalek, David Lees, Valentin T. Bickel, Ariel N. Deutsch, Nicholas C. Schmerr, Kevin Lewis, Benjamin Fernando, Kathryn Gansler   +45 more
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Nanoparticles in Periodontology and Implant Dentistry: From Mechanisms to Clinical Applications

Journal of Periodontal Research, EarlyView.
Nanotechnology holds significant promise in improving dental care, yet there is a need for more reliable clinical studies to validate its effectiveness and safety. ABSTRACT Recent advances in nanotechnology are reshaping the landscape of periodontology and implant dentistry, particularly through the application of nanoparticles (NPs).
Chun Xu, Yuan Chen, Mario Romandini, Håvard Jostein Haugen, Sašo Ivanovski   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Diversity of Honeybee Behavior Is a Potential Inbuilt Trait for Varroa Tolerance: A Basic Tool for Breeding Varroa-Resistant Strains

Agriculture
The ectoparasitic mite Varroa destructor is well known for transmitting a number of viruses that can contribute to the collapse of honeybee colonies. To date, the many control measures put in place to limit the spread of V.
Peter Njukang Akongte, Daegeun Oh, Changhoon Lee, Yongsoo Choi, Dongwon Kim   +4 more
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Welfare and Felt Duration

Noûs, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT How should we understand the duration of a pleasant or unpleasant sensation, insofar as its duration modulates how good or bad the experience is overall? Given that we seem able to distinguish between subjective and objective duration and that how well or badly someone's life goes is naturally thought of as something to be assessed from her ...
Andreas L. Mogensen
wiley   +1 more source