The Effects of Pesticides on Queen Rearing and Virus Titers in Honey Bees (Apis mellifera L.)
Insects, 2013 The effects of sublethal pesticide exposure on queen emergence and virus titers were examined. Queen rearing colonies were fed pollen with chlorpyrifos (CPF) alone (pollen-1) and with CPF and the fungicide Pristine® (pollen-2).
Gloria DeGrandi-Hoffman, Yanping Chen
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Honey bees consider larval nutritional status rather than genetic relatedness when selecting larvae for emergency queen rearing [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2018 In honey bees and many other social insects, production of queens is a vital task, as colony fitness is dependent on queens. The factors considered by honey bee workers in selecting larvae to rear new queens during emergency queen rearing are poorly ...
Ramesh R. Sagili +4 more
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Re-using food resources from failed honey bee (Apis mellifera L.) colonies and their impact on colony queen rearing capacity [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2023 For over a decade, beekeepers have experienced high losses of honey bee (Apis mellifera L.) colonies due to a variety of stressors including pesticide exposure. Some of these chemical stressors may residually remain in the colony comb and food resources (
Rogan Tokach +2 more
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Eggs sampling as an effective tool for identifying the incidence of viruses in honey bees involved in artificial queen rearing [PDF]
Scientific ReportsThe Carniolan honey bee (Apis mellifera carnica) plays an essential role in crop pollination, environment diversity, and the production of honey bee products.
Caio E. C. Domingues +8 more
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Evidence of queen-rearing suppression by mature queens in the little fire ant, Wasmannia auropunctata. [PDF]
Insectes Soc, 2023 The little fire ant (LFA), Wasmannia auropunctata, is a serious invasive pest first reported on Hawaii Island in 1999, and has since spread and established itself across the island. LFA is considered one of the worst 100 invasive species and has significant ecological, agricultural, and public health impacts in invaded areas, which include much of the ...
Collignon RM, Siderhurst MS, Cha DH.
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Social and nutritional factors controlling the growth of honey bee (Apis mellifera) queens. [PDF]
PLoS ONEThe honey bee queen is essential for colony function, laying hundreds of eggs daily and determining the colony's genetic composition. Beekeepers cultivate and trade queens to enhance colony health and productivity.
Omer Kama, Hagai Yehoshua Shpigler
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Effects of Rearing Period and Grafting Method on the Queen Bee Rearing [PDF]
Journal of Applied Animal Research, 2005 Abstract Gene, F., Emsen, B. and Dodologlu, A. 2005. Effects of rearing period and grafting method on the queen bee rearing. J. Appl. Anim. Res., 27: 45–48. The effect of three grafting methods, addition of royal jelly (A), dry grafting (B) and grafting with addition of water (C) and three months of summer in June, July and August, on queen bee rearing
EMSEN STEİNMAN, Berna +2 more
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Effects of commercial queen rearing methods on queen fecundity and genome methylation [PDF]
Apidologie, 2020 The queen and worker castes of the honey bee are very distinct phenotypes that result from different epigenomically regulated developmental programs. In commercial queen rearing, it is common to produce queens by transplanting worker larvae to queen cells to be raised as queens.
Andrew B Barron, Zhi Jiang Zeng
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Conservation of Apis mellifera mellifera L. in the Middle Ural: A Review of Genetic Diversity, Ecological Adaptation, and Breeding Perspectives [PDF]
InsectsThe European dark bee is well adapted to cold winters and short summers. However, threats from habitat loss, pests, and hybridization with southern bees pose significant challenges to its populations.
Olga Frunze +5 more
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Strength surpasses relatedness–queen larva selection in honeybees
PLoS ONE, 2021 Nepotism was initially theoretically predicted and sometimes found to trigger the selection of specific larvae to be reared as queens in the honeybee Apis mellifera.
Saad Naser AL-Kahtani, Kaspar Bienefeld
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