Apis mellifera honey
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The South West Indian Ocean (SWIO) archipelagos and Madagascar constitute a hotspot of biodiversity with a high rate of endemism. In this area, the endemic subspecies A. m. unicolor has been described in Madagascar. It belongs to the African lineage, one of the four described evolutionary lineages in honey bees.
21p vinarcissa 21-03-2023 4 1 Download
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Genetic improvement of honey bees is more difficult compared to other livestock, due to the very different reproductive behavior. Estimation of breeding values requires specific adjustment and the use of sires in the pedigree is only possible when mating of queens and drones is strictly controlled.
9p vihagrid 30-01-2023 5 3 Download
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This field study was carried out to evaluate two honeybee races namely; Apis mellifera jementica (indigenous race) and Apis mellifera carnica (carniolan race) based on brood production, population development, foraging activity, and queens status through the experimental period extended from March
8p schindler 30-12-2021 7 0 Download
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The focus of the present study is natural fermentation. And the choice of mead by this process was due to the growing search for foods categorized as "comfort food", which are foods that recall a pleasurable mental state, especially associated with a nostalgic and sentimental appeal, in addiction refer to foods that are homemade.
6p mudbound 10-12-2021 6 0 Download
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Apis mellifera scutellata and A.m. capensis (the Cape honey bee) are western honey bee subspecies indigenous to the Republic of South Africa (RSA). Both bees are important for biological and economic reasons. First, A.m. scutellata is the invasive “African honey bee” of the Americas and exhibits a number of traits that beekeepers consider undesirable.
26p vitzuyu2711 29-09-2021 15 1 Download
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Bees are confronting several environmental challenges, including the intermingled effects of malnutrition and disease. Intuitively, pollen is the healthiest nutritional choice, however, commercial substitutes, such as Bee-Pro and MegaBee, are widely used. Herein we examined how feeding natural and artificial diets shapes transcription in the abdomen of the honey bee, and how transcription shifts in combination with Nosema parasitism.
20p vitzuyu2711 29-09-2021 16 1 Download
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Foraging behavior in honey bees (Apis mellifera) is a complex phenotype that is regulated by physiological state and social signals. How these factors are integrated at the molecular level to modulate foraging behavior has not been well characterized.
15p visilicon2711 20-08-2021 5 1 Download
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The behavioural transition from nurses to foragers in honey bees is known to be affected by intrinsic and extrinsic factors, including colony demography, hormone levels, brain chemistry and structure, and gene expression in the brain. However, the molecular mechanism underlying this behavioural transition of honey bees is still obscure.
11p visilicon2711 20-08-2021 16 1 Download
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Parts of Europe and the United States have witnessed dramatic losses in commercially managed honey bees over the past decade to what is considered an unsustainable extent. The large-scale loss of bees has considerable implications for the agricultural economy because bees are one of the leading pollinators of numerous crops. Bee declines have been associated with several interactive factors.
20p visilicon2711 20-08-2021 7 1 Download
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The adaptation of organisms to changing environments is self-evident, with the adaptive evolution of organisms to environmental changes being a fundamental problem in evolutionary biology. Bees can pollinate in various environments and climates and play important roles in maintaining the ecological balance of the earth.
20p viansan2711 30-07-2021 12 1 Download
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Most of our understanding on the social behavior and genomics of bees and other social insects is centered on the Western honey bee, Apis mellifera. The genus Apis, however, is a highly derived branch comprising less than a dozen species, four of which genomically characterized.
26p vijeeni2711 24-07-2021 8 0 Download
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The population genetics of U.S. honey bee stocks remain poorly characterized despite the agricultural importance of Apis mellifera as the major crop pollinator. Commercial and research-based breeding programs have made significant improvements of favorable genetic traits (e.g. production and disease resistance).
12p vijeeni2711 30-06-2021 16 1 Download
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Queen failure is a persistent problem in beekeeping operations, but in the absence of overt symptoms it is often difficult, if not impossible, to ascertain the root cause. Stressors like heat-shock, cold-shock, and sublethal pesticide exposure can reduce stored sperm viability and lead to cryptic queen failure.
12p vijeeni2711 30-06-2021 11 1 Download
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With numerous endemic subspecies representing four of its five evolutionary lineages, Europe holds a large fraction of Apis mellifera genetic diversity. This diversity and the natural distribution range have been altered by anthropogenic factors.
12p vilichoo2711 25-06-2021 10 1 Download
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The data on performance of high and low pollen hoarding colonies revealed significant differences with respect to different colony parameters. Ranking obtained by different colonies with respect to colony strength, brood area, pollen stores, honey stores, pollen stores and hygienic behaviour were scored as per their performance. The main criteria for selecting colonies with high pollen hoarding and low pollen hoarding tendency was average pollen stores.
12p gaocaolon9 22-12-2020 12 2 Download
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Mustard (Brassica spp.), family cruciferae are the major oilseed crop grow throughout India for edible oil. It is an open pollinated crop and honeybees are effective pollinators for open pollinated crops because of a lot of nectar and pollens are available on the flowers of mustard. The studies were conducted during rabi 2013-14 and 2014-15 at ARS, Kota to enhance the yield of mustard through honey bee pollinator. Mustard variety “Bio-902” was grown following all recommended agronomic practices without spraying through the crop season.
4p chauchaungayxua8 03-10-2020 8 2 Download
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Each honey is unique on the basis of chemistry, quantity and combination of the various components that attributes towards its quality. The control and characterization of quality are of great importance and interest in apiculture. Henceforth the present study analyzed the quality parameters of honeys from different bee origin and compared the results with the quality criteria laid by European Union Directive for honeys. Processing was noted to have detrimental effect on several quality parameters of honeys; in spite of which it was remarkably within the critical limits.
11p nguaconbaynhay6 24-06-2020 13 0 Download
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A study was carried out to determine the effectiveness of thymol (powdered form) with oxalic acid against an ectoparastic mite, Varroa destructor populations in honey bee, Apis mellifera ligustica (Hymenoptera: Apidae) colonies in the autumn.
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The investigations were aimed to select Apis mellifera L. colonies for queen rearing on the basis of their biological and economical characteristics. Significant variations have been found in various colony parameters viz. colony strength (4.54 to 10.43 no. of bee frames), brood area (1579.49 to 5086.25 cm2 ), prolificness (271.52 to 874.35 no. of eggs laid / per day), pollen stores (79.75 to 401.84 cm2 ) and honey stores (550.00 to 2162.50 g). The overall performance of the colonies was measured by average ranking value obtained by colonies for different colony parameters.
8p nguaconbaynhay3 07-02-2020 10 1 Download
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Foraging behavior of bumble bees and honey bees with respect to foraging activity, foraging rate, foraging speed, loose pollen grains and abundance were studied by utilization of bumble bees (B. haemorrhoidalis) and European honey bees for the pollination of kiwifruit cv. Allison under caged condition at kiwifruit orchard of Dr. YS Parmar University of Horticulture & Forestry, Nauni, Solan (HP) during 2017.
9p nguathienthan2 25-12-2019 17 1 Download