Apis mellifera
The defensive response of the honeybee Apis mellifera
... While ants are mostly opportunistic, other insects have developed strong parasitic associations with honeybee colonies. These pests, well-known to beekeepers, include the mite Varroa destructor, the greater wax moth, ...
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The moment before touchdown: landing manoeuvres of the honeybee Apis mellifera
... The honeybee (Apis mellifera L.) is a prime example of an insect that relies on flight for foraging, and hence for survival of the colony. The majority of bees in a hive make dozens of foraging flights per ...
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The foraging behaviour of honey bees, Apis mellifera: a review
... ABSTRACT: Foraging behaviour is one of the distinctive behaviours of honey bees, Apis mellifera. This behav- iour is the link between the honey bee colony and the ambient environment. Therefore, various ...
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Differences in spatial resolution and contrast sensitivity of flight control in the honeybees Apis cerana and Apis mellifera
... changed. Apis cerana tended to fly faster when the grating was or appeared to be grey than when they could detect the contrast – in which case, speed remained ...constant. Apis mellifera also tended ...
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Radioprotective action of venom of honey bee Apis mellifera Caucasica
... bee Apis mellifera Caucasica on the life span of experimental animals irradiated with small doses of gamma ...zootoxin Apis mellifera Caucasica with a single gamma irradiation of 60Co mice at ...
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Differential attractiveness of sunflower cultivars to the honeybee Apis mellifera L.
... Résumé – Étude de l’attractivité de di ff érents cultivars de tournesol pour l’abeille domestique Apis mellifera L. En France, la production de miel de tournesol est en diminution depuis les années 1990 et ...
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A Microsatellite-Based Linkage Map of the Honeybee, Apis mellifera L.
... A linkage map for the honeybee (Apis mellifera) was constructed mainly from the progeny of two hybrid queens (A. m. ligustica ⫻ A. m. mellifera). A total of 541 loci were mapped; 474 were ...
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Plants Foraged by Apis mellifera adansonii Latreille in Southern Chad
... OALibJ | DOI:10.4236/oalib.1102831 8 August 2016 | Volume 3 | e2831 In the western highlands of Cameroon [1], also in Bukavu and its surrounding South Kivu in the Eastern Demo- cratic Republic of Congo [13], in Burkina ...
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Index Terms Apis mellifera, bee venom, apitoxin, bioactive
... According to Rodés et al. 24 and Flores 25 , the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis is limited by the degenerative and inflammatory autoimmune components of the disease. The action of the physiotherapist is limited to ...
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Differences in the sleep architecture of forager and young honeybees (Apis mellifera)
... Honeybee ( Apis mellifera ) foragers are among the first invertebrates for which sleep behavior has been described. Foragers (typically older than 21 days) have strong circadian rhythms; they are active ...
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MORPHOMETRIC CHARACTERISTICS OF BEES APIS MELLIFERA ADANSONII IN BENIN
... than Apis mellifera adansonii may exist in Benin, as mentioned by Viniwanou, (2009) and Paraïso et ...and Apis mellifera) can cohabit in a single colony (Tan et ...of Apis sp. other ...
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Mechanisms of thermal stability during flight in the honeybee apis mellifera
... For measurements of gas exchange and body segment temperatures during flight, individual departing honeybee (Apis mellifera) foragers were captured from three colonies maintained within the Life Sciences ...
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An analysis of synthetic processing of odor mixtures in the honeybee (Apis mellifera)
... (Apis mellifera) show substantially lower responses to an odorant element after learning it in a mixture than when that element is conditioned alone (Smith, 1997, 1998), which is analogous to odor masking ...
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Profile of the body surface proteolytic systém in Apis mellifera quee
... The proteolytic system on the body surface of the honey bee has been explored scantily. That is why only a few papers on the surface proteolysis in bees were published (Bania and Polanowski, 1999; Pliszczyński et al., ...
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Pollen Analysis of Apis mellifera Honey Collected from Nigeria
... The areas selected for this study have good potential for sustaining beekeeping activities because of the diversity of nectar and pollen taxa. The honey samples are rich in pollen contents an indication that they are not ...
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Effect of egg yolk on sperm cryopreservation of drone (Apis mellifera)
... The bee Apis mellifera is the main pollinator species used by man to increase crop productivity, and plays an important role in maintaining biodiversity. In recent years, the beekeeping sector has been ...
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INFLUENCE OF SUPPLEMENTAL DIETS ON APIS MELLIFERA L. COLONIES FOR HONEY PRODUCTION
... of Apis mellifera during August, 2011 and January, 2012 in the premises of Honey bee Research Institute, National Agricultural Research Centre, Islamabad, Pakistan, to investigate alternative nutrients to ...
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THYMOL AS CONTROL AGENT OF MITES (VARROA DESTRUCTOR) ON HONEYBEES (APIS MELLIFERA)
... for bee mites. In this study thymol powder (5mg hive ) was compared with formic acid 65 % and fluvalinate (strip) as standard control measure against Varroa mite. The mite mortality rate was recorded in honeybee colonies ...
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Improved cholinergic transmission is detrimental to behavioural plasticity in honeybees (Apis mellifera)
... All experiments were performed in the all weather bee flight facility at the Australian National University, Canberra. Forager bees (Apis mellifera ligustica) were first trained to enter a Y-Maze and visit ...
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Identification of Apis mellifera gut microbiota with MALDI TOF MS Biotyper
... The honey bee, Apis mellifera, is critically important for the pollination of many economically important crops. Continued colony losses have called for a deeper understanding of both symbiotic and ...
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