Queen Quality and the Impact of Honey Bee Diseases on Queen Health: Potential for Interactions between Two Major Threats to Colony Health [PDF]
Insects, 2017 Western honey bees, Apis mellifera, live in highly eusocial colonies that are each typically headed by a single queen. The queen is the sole reproductive female in a healthy colony, and because long-term colony survival depends on her ability to produce ...
Esmaeil Amiri +3 more
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Queen quality, performance, and winter survival of imported and domestic honey bee queen stocks [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2023 Canadian beekeepers have faced high colony mortality each winter over the last decade. Frequently citing “poor queen quality” as a top contributing factor to colony loss, Canadian beekeepers report needing to replace half their queens each year. Domestic
L. A. Holmes +7 more
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Is the Brood Pattern within a Honey Bee Colony a Reliable Indicator of Queen Quality? [PDF]
Insects, 2019 Failure of the queen is often identified as a leading cause of honey bee colony mortality. However, the factors that can contribute to “queen failure” are poorly defined and often misunderstood.
Kathleen V. Lee +4 more
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High-Quality Queens Produce High-Quality Offspring Queens
Insects, 2022 Honey bees, rather than rear queens with eggs and larvae from worker cells, prefer to rear new queens with eggs form queen cells, if available. This may be a result of long-term evolutionary process for honey bee colonies. However, the exact mechanism of
Longtao Yu +5 more
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Effect of Storage on the Nutritional Quality of Queen Garnet Plum [PDF]
Foods, 2021 Due to high perishability, plums are harvested at an early stage of maturity to extend postharvest storage life. Storage time and temperature can significantly affect the phytochemical and sugar composition of plums, altering their palatability and nutritional quality.
Bruce Topp +2 more
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Italian Journal of Animal Science, 2022 Rearing techniques are important to determine a successful honey bee production. Queen cell cup size may affect the acceptance rate of grafted larvae and queen’s size, which in turn may influence the quality of the colonies.
Silvana Mattiello +4 more
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Fertility correlates with queen size and sperm quality in an ant [PDF]
PLOS OneFitness can vary between individuals of the same population for reasons related to nutrient acquisition during development, but also to the quality of the mating partners. We focus on ant queens of Cardiocondyla obscurior to investigate the effects of female and male morphology and sperm ...
Lena-Marie Süß +2 more
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Effect of queen cell numbers on royal jelly production and quality
Current Research in Food Science, 2022 Royal jelly (RJ) is a popular functional food with a wealth of health-promoting effects. Over 90% of the global RJ is produced in China mainly by a high RJ-producing honeybee (RJB) strain that can accept and feed a great number of queen larvae for RJ production.
Chuan Ma
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A non-invasive method for profiling the gut microbiome and virome of honey bee queens [PDF]
Scientific ReportsHigh honey bee colony mortality worldwide has underscored the critical role of queen bee health in colony survival, with poor queen quality frequently linked to colony losses.
Leslie A. Holmes +4 more
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MORPHOMETRICAL STUDIES ON QUEEN BEES REARED FOR HIGH QUALITY AND QUANTITY [PDF]
Journal of Plant Protection and Pathology, 2007 The present work was carried to study some morphometrical and biological characters affecting of high quality queens. Highest percentages of acceptance, emerged queens, weight of virgin queens, morphometrics of virgin queens and number of ovarioles as ...
M. Ali +2 more
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