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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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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 ...
Süß LM, Oettler J, Jaimes-Nino LM.
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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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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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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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Animals, 2021 The quality of the honeybee queen has an important effect on a colony’s development, productivity, and survival. Queen failure or loss is considered a leading cause for colonies’ mortality worldwide.
Elena Facchini +7 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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Honey Bee Queens and Virus Infections
Viruses, 2020 The honey bee queen is the central hub of a colony to produce eggs and release pheromones to maintain social cohesion. Among many environmental stresses, viruses are a major concern to compromise the queen’s health and reproductive vigor.
Esmaeil Amiri +3 more
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Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2021 Recent work demonstrated that honey bee (Apis mellifera L.) queens reared in pesticide-laden beeswax exhibit significant changes in the composition of the chemicals produced by their mandibular glands including those that comprise queen mandibular ...
Elizabeth M. Walsh +6 more
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Control agents on the quality of Africanized honeybee queens
Semina: Ciências Agrárias, 2020 The objective of this study was to evaluate the effect of the entomopathogenic fungus Beauveria bassiana, used in large field crops, and of the pomegranate Punica granatum aqueous extract, with insecticidal potential for insect control, on the quality of Africanized Apis mellifera queens.
Michele Potrich +7 more
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