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The Pathogen Profile of a Honey Bee Queen Does Not Reflect That of Her Workers
Insects, 2020 Throughout a honey bee queen’s lifetime, she is tended to by her worker daughters, who feed and groom her. Such interactions provide possible horizontal transmission routes for pathogens from the workers to the queen, and as such a queen’s pathogen ...
Jessica L. Kevill +6 more
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Mathematical Model and Dynamics Analysis of the Stingless Bee (Trigona sp.) in A Colony
Communication in Biomathematical Sciences, 2023 Trigona sp. is a stingless bee species that is widely distributed in tropical countries. It has castes in the colony, i.e. queen, worker, and male bee. Despite its size, Trigona sp.
Fidelis N. Zai +4 more
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PLoS ONE, 2023 Pesticide exposure and queen loss are considered to be major causes of honey bee colony mortality, yet little is known regarding the effects of regularly encountered agrochemicals on honey bee reproduction.
Julia D Fine +2 more
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Getting more than a fair share: nutrition of worker larvae related to social parasitism in the Cape honey bee Apis mellifera capensis [PDF]
, 2002 Besides activation of ovaries and thelytokous reproduction of Cape workers, larval nutrition is an important aspect in parasitism of the African honey bee.
Allsopp, M.H. +3 more
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Aging without functional senescence in honey bee workers [PDF]
Current Biology, 2007 Senescence can be defined demographically as an age- dependent increase in mortality risk, or functionally as a decline in performance. The relationship between the two phenomena is central for understanding the biological aging process and the implications of human lifespan extension [1 ].
Rueppell, Olav +3 more
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Working-class royalty: bees beat the caste system [PDF]
, 2005 The struggle among social classes or castes is well known in humans. Here, we show that caste inequality similarly affects societies of ants, bees and wasps, where castes are morphologically distinct and workers have greatly reduced reproductive ...
Camargo J.M.F +9 more
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Egg viability and worker policing in honey bees [PDF]
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2004 In many species of social Hymenoptera, unmated workers can lay eggs that will produce males by parthenogenesis. Nevertheless, in queenright honey bee colonies ( Apis mellifera ), worker reproduction is low. One possible mechanism for this difference is worker policing, the removal of worker-laid eggs by other ...
Christian W W, Pirk +4 more
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Towards integrated control of varroa: effect of variation in hygienic behaviour among honey bee colonies on mite population increase and deformed wing virus incidence [PDF]
, 2014 Hygienic behaviour in the honey bee, Apis mellifera, is the uncapping and removal of dead, diseased or infected brood from sealed cells by worker bees. We determined the effect of hygienic behaviour on varroa population growth and incidence of deformed ...
Al Toufailia, Hasan M +4 more
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Queen control of a key life-history event in a eusocial insect [PDF]
, 2013 In eusocial insects, inclusive fitness theory predicts potential queen–worker conflict over the timing of events in colony life history. Whether queens or workers control the timing of these events is poorly understood.
Andrew F. G. Bourke +5 more
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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
Silvia C, Remolina +3 more
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