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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Effect of Introducing Larval Queen Cell Numbers and Rearing Season on Certain Developmental Features and Wet Weight of Commercially Produced Queens under Damietta Conditions (North Egypt) [PDF]
Journal of Plant Protection and Pathology, 2021 The present studies were carried out to investigate the quantity (as % of accepted larvae, sealed queen cells and emerged queens) and quality (as weight of queen at emergence) of queen honeybees as affected by some internal environmental factors related ...
H. A. El-Kady +2 more
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Honey bee maternal effects improve worker performance and reproductive ability in offspring
Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, 2023 Maternal effects are an evolutionary strategy used to improve offspring quality. In an example of maternal effects in honey bees (Apis mellifera), mother queens produce larger eggs in queen cells than in worker cells in order to breed better daughter ...
Longtao Yu +10 more
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VARIATIONS IN THE QUALITY OF VIRGIN QUEENS OF HONEY BEE THAT PRODUCED COMMERCIALLY FROM DIFFERENT SOURCES IN EGYPT DURING TWO SEASONS. [PDF]
Journal of Plant Protection and Pathology, 2014 For investigating the quality of virgin queens of honey bee that produced commercially in Egypt, that purchased form four large commercial queen producers located at Assiut, Elgharbya and Menoufiya through two seasons (March and August).
Zeinab Hamza. +3 more
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Honey Bee (Apis mellifera) Queen Reproductive Potential Affects Queen Mandibular Gland Pheromone Composition and Worker Retinue Response. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2016 Reproductive division of labor is one of the defining traits of honey bees (Apis mellifera), with non-reproductive tasks being performed by workers while a single queen normally monopolizes reproduction.
Juliana Rangel +3 more
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Jurnal Ilmu-Ilmu Peternakan, 2021 Queen bees are castes in the colony tasked with producing eggs to survive a bee colony. The Queen is the only one tail in the colony and can produce eggs to be a prospective queen bee, worker and stud.
Sri Minarti, Puji Akhiroh
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PLoS ONE, 2023 Honey bee colonies maintain viable queens in part through communication with Queen Mandibular Pheromone (QMP), a mixture that signals the queen's presence and reproductive quality to workers.
Mark J Carroll +4 more
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Quality of queen bees in different ways of their production
ANIMAL SCIENCE AND FOOD TECHNOLOGY, 2021 Timely replacement of queens is one of the main zootechnical methods for maintaining the vital activity of bee families, and searching for ways to improve their quality is an urgent problem. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of the method of obtaining queen bees of Apis mellifera sossimai and Apis mellifera carpatica breeds on their ...
Vitalii Kucheriavyi +2 more
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The Effects of Co-Enzyme Q10 and Caffeine on Morphometric Characteristics of Queen Honey Bees
Turkish Journal of Agriculture: Food Science and Technology, 2021 Honey bee queen quality is a critical factor of colony performance. Indications of such qualities can manifest themselves through morphological traits such as wet weight and thorax width.
Samet Okuyan, Paul Cross
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