Water provisioning increases caged worker bee lifespan and caged worker bees are living half as long as observed 50 years ago [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2022 The high loss rates of honey bee colonies drive research for solutions aimed to mitigate these losses. While honey bee colonies are superorganisms, experiments that measure the response to stressors often use caged individuals to allow for inference in a
Anthony Nearman, Dennis vanEngelsdorp
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Genome-Wide Differential DNA Methylation in Reproductive, Morphological, and Visual System Differences Between Queen Bee and Worker Bee (Apis mellifera) [PDF]
Frontiers in Genetics, 2020 There are many differences in external morphology and internal physiology between the Apis mellifera queen bee and worker bee, some of which are relevant to beekeeping production.
Hongfang Wang +5 more
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Overwintering Honey Bee Colonies: Effect of Worker Age and Climate on the Hindgut Microbiota
Insects, 2021 Honey bee overwintering health is essential to meet the demands of spring pollination. Managed honey bee colonies are overwintered in a variety of climates, and increasing rates of winter colony loss have prompted investigations into overwintering ...
Patrick W. Maes +3 more
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Starving honey bee (Apis mellifera) larvae signal pheromonally to worker bees [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2016 AbstractCooperative brood care is diagnostic of animal societies. This is particularly true for the advanced social insects and the honey bee is the best understood of the insect societies. A brood pheromone signaling the presence of larvae in a bee colony has been characterised and well studied, but here we explored whether honey bee larvae actively ...
Xu Jiang He +5 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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Hemocyte-mediated phagocytosis differs between honey bee (Apis mellifera) worker castes.
PLoS ONE, 2017 Honey bees as other insects rely on the innate immune system for protection against diseases. The innate immune system includes the circulating hemocytes (immune cells) that clear pathogens from hemolymph (blood) by phagocytosis, nodulation or ...
Eva Marit Hystad +3 more
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Effects of habitat composition and landscape structure on worker foraging distances of five bumblebee species [PDF]
Ecological Applications, 2016 Bumblebees (Bombus spp.) are important pollinators of both crops and wild flowers. Their contribution to this essential ecosystem service has been threatened over recent decades by changes in land use, which have led to declines in their populations.
Andrew F. G. Bourke +67 more
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Insects, 2019 Queen loss or failure is an important cause of honey bee colony loss. A functional queen is essential to a colony, and the queen is predicted to be well protected by worker bees and other mechanisms of social immunity.
Esmaeil Amiri +5 more
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Hi-C-resolved metagenomics reveals host range variation among mobile genetic elements within the European honey bee [PDF]
mBioMobile genetic elements (MGEs), such as plasmids and bacteriophages, are major contributors to the ecology and evolution of host-associated microbes due to symbiotic interactions and gene flow via horizontal gene transmission. Antibiotic resistance genes
Chris R. P. Robinson +3 more
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Characterization of Gut Microbiota of Honey Bees in Korea [PDF]
Polish Journal of MicrobiologyKorea’s unique climate and agricultural environment suggest that the gut microbiome of honey bees may possess distinctive compositions influenced by regional factors.
Shuvo Md Sarower Hossen +10 more
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