Hygienic behaviour in Brazilian stingless bees [PDF]
Biology Open, 2016 Social insects have many defence mechanisms against pests and pathogens. One of these is hygienic behaviour, which has been studied in detail in the honey bee, Apis mellifera.
Hasan Al Toufailia +4 more
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Hygienic behaviour selection via freeze-killed honey bee brood not associated with chalkbrood resistance in eastern Australia. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2018 Hygienic behaviour is a social immune response in honey bees shown to help provide resistance to honey bee pests and diseases. A survey of hygienic behaviour and brood diseases was conducted on 649 colonies in eastern Australia to initiate a selective ...
Jody Gerdts +4 more
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Automated image analysis to assess hygienic behaviour of honeybees. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2022 Focus of this study is to design an automated image processing pipeline for handling uncontrolled acquisition conditions of images acquired in the field.
Gianluigi Paolillo +7 more
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No genetic tradeoffs between hygienic behaviour and individual innate immunity in the honey bee, Apis mellifera. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 Many animals have individual and social mechanisms for combating pathogens. Animals may exhibit short-term physiological tradeoffs between social and individual immunity because the latter is often energetically costly.
Brock A Harpur +6 more
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Microbial Pressure and Social Immunity: Bumble Bees Increase Brood Hygiene After Exposure to a Bacillus thuringiensis‐Based Biopesticide [PDF]
Ecology and EvolutionTo inhibit the spread of potential pathogens and parasites, social insects exhibit hygienic behaviour, the removal of dead or affected brood. Studies on bumble bees performing this behaviour are limited, compared to honey bees, termites, and ants.
Michelle Scheffler +4 more
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Leave‐One‐Chromosome‐Out Association Testing Decodes Uncapping Behaviour in Honeybees During Varroa destructor Infestation [PDF]
Veterinary Medicine and ScienceBackground Uncapping behaviour of Varroa‑infested brood cells is a critical social‑immunity mechanism in honeybees, enabling colonies to detect and remove parasitized brood.
Peymaneh Davoodi, Mohammad Razmkabir
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Evidence for virus-associated recapping behaviour in honey bees (Apis mellifera) with differential detection sensitivity between varroa-resistant and non-resistant colonies [PDF]
Scientific ReportsSocial immunity is vital for protecting honey bee colonies from pathogens and parasites. Among these threats, the parasitic mite Varroa destructor is particularly devastating, both by weakening parasitized bees and by transmitting several potentially ...
Amélie Noël +5 more
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STUDIES ON SOME BEHAVIOUR CHARACTERS OF HONEY BEE RACES [PDF]
Journal of Plant Protection and Pathology, 2006 The present work aimed to study: I Effect of colors on aggressiveness of honeybee races. 2. Hygienic behaviour in the laboratory tests and the colony as indication of controlling of brood disease and varroa mite. 3. Relationship between aggressiveness
H. Abou El-Enain,
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Allozyme genetic characterization of Apis mellifera (Hymenoptera: Apidae) colonies from Bulgaria with different hygienic behaviour [PDF]
Journal of Central European Agriculture, 2019 The genetic variability in 25 honey bee colonies from different regions of Bulgaria with diverse hygienic behaviour (super hygienic, hygienic and non-hygienic) has been studied. Alloenzyme analysis of two systems (MDH-1 and EST-3) corresponding to 2 loci
Svilen Lazarov +4 more
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Relationships between resistance characteristics of honey bees (Apis mellifera) against Varroa mites (Varroa destructor) [PDF]
Journal of Central European Agriculture, 2018 Ectoparasitic mite, Varroa destructor, today is one of the main reasons for colony losses worldwide. This study deals with relationships between measurements of resistance characteristics and measurements of bee infestation.
Martin Buchegger +4 more
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