Water provisioning increases caged worker bee lifespan and caged worker bees are living half as long as observed 50 years ago. [PDF]
Sci Rep, 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
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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]
Front Genet, 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.
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Starving honey bee (Apis mellifera) larvae signal pheromonally to worker bees [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2016 Cooperative 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.
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Methylation and worker reproduction in the bumble-bee (Bombus terrestris) [PDF]
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2014 Insects are at the dawn of an epigenetics era. Numerous social insect species have been found to possess a functioning methylation system, previously not thought to exist in insects.
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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 ...
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Caste-dependent sleep of worker honey bees [PDF]
Journal of Experimental Biology, 2008 SUMMARYSleep is a dynamic phenomenon that changes throughout an organism's lifetime, relating to possible age- or task-associated changes in health,learning ability, vigilance and fitness. Sleep has been identified experimentally in many animals, including honey bees (Apis mellifera).
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Senescence in the worker honey bee Apis Mellifera [PDF]
Journal of Insect Physiology, 2007 Honey bees are social insects that exhibit striking caste-specific differences in longevity. Queen honey bees live on average 1-2 years, whereas workers live 2-6 weeks in the summer and about 20 weeks in the winter. It is not clear whether queen-worker differences in longevity are due to intrinsic physiological differences in the rate of senescence, to
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