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Frontiers in Physiology, 2018 Odorant-binding proteins (OBPs) are the critical elements responsible for binding and transporting odors and pheromones in the sensitive olfactory system in insects.
Xin-Mi Song +6 more
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Chemical communication in the honeybee (Apis mellifera L.): a review
Veterinární Medicína, 2011 An important area of physiology of the honeybee (Apis mellifera) is chemical communication between individuals and castes in the swarm, which maintains its integrity and function.
M. Trhlin, J. Rajchard
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Longevity extension of worker honey bees (Apis mellifera) by royal jelly: optimal dose and active ingredient [PDF]
PeerJ, 2017 In the Western honey bee, Apis mellifera, queens and workers have different longevity although they share the same genome. Queens consume royal jelly (RJ) as the main food throughout their life, including as adults, but workers only eat worker jelly when
Wenchao Yang +3 more
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Care-giver identity impacts offspring development and performance in an annually social bumble bee
BMC Ecology and Evolution, 2021 Background The developmental fates of offspring have the potential to be influenced by the identity of their care-givers and by the nature of the care that they receive.
Claudinéia P. Costa +5 more
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The scent of the waggle dance.
PLoS Biology, 2007 The waggle dance of honey bee (Apis mellifera L.) foragers communicates to nest mates the location of a profitable food source. We used solid-phase microextraction and gas chromatography coupled with mass spectrometry to show that waggle-dancing bees ...
Corinna Thom +3 more
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Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2021 The honey bee (Apis mellifera) is the most important managed pollinator to sustainable agriculture and our ecosystem. Yet managed honey bee colonies in the United States experience 30–40% losses annually.
Jada Smith +4 more
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Mechanisms of food provisioning of honeybee larvae by worker bees [PDF]
Journal of Experimental Biology, 2009 SUMMARY Although it has clearly been demonstrated in previous studies that honeybees inspect their worker brood in a non-random fashion, it is still unclear which signals and cues worker bees use to monitor the nutritional state of their brood.
Christina Heimken +2 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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Insects, 2020 Honey bees collect and apply plant resins to the interior of their nest cavity, in order to form a layer around the nest cavity called a propolis envelope.
Hollie Dalenberg +4 more
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Journal of Plant Protection Research, 2022 A field trial on the transfer of pyrimethanil, cyprodinil and cyflufenamid residues from apple trees of Idared cultivar to hives by honeybees Apis mellifera was carried out.
Bartosz Piechowicz +7 more
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