[PDF] Top 20 Comb construction in mixed species colonies of honeybees, Apis cerana and Apis mellifera

... A. cerana and A. mellifera colonies were done at an apiary of Yunnan Agricultural University, Kunming, China, to refine the final experimental ...A. cerana and A. mellifera and then ... See full document

... ragers honeybees are encouraged to collect and store greater amounts of pollen to feed the ...that species of large honeybees, such as Apis mellifera, require large amounts of pollen to ... See full document

... between species, we tested how changes in spatial resolution and contrast sensitivity affect the speed and position control of the Asian and European honeybees (Apis cerana and Apis ... See full document

... three species started foraging around or even before ...mass-flowering species Memecylon umbellatum ...the species forages on moonlit ...cavity-nesting species A. cerana and A. ... See full document

... Studies were conducted to evaluate the influence of trap colour on the captures of honeybees, Apis mellifera L., codling moth, Cydia pomonella L., and non target muscoid flies in sticky delta traps. ... See full document

... honey-filled comb and water, to allow the bees to settle down before introducing them into the host colonies ...host colonies A and B and September-October 2012 for host colony ... See full document

... The prevalence of the DWV was investi- gated in adult bees, bee pupae and mites, in 4 apiaries located in different regions of France. Although limited to a few apiaries, our data suggested that deformed wing virus in ... See full document

... Honeybee diet surveys need an accurate knowledge of the pollen supplies. Our studies concern the flora contribution in different landscape environments based on pollen loads collected in our experimental apiaries along ... See full document

... by honeybees with carbohydrates constituting about 95 to 97% of the dry weight of honey ...(Apis mellifera honey) and stingless honeybees honey are the two types of honeys found in the world ... See full document

... to colonies in standard hives (Saffari et ...feed colonies to stimulate brood rearing in the late winter or early spring, or to relieve dietary stress during times when adequate pollen from blooming plants ... See full document

... 3 C. Assessment of 75 bee hives was conducted out for infestation of mites. Sixteen A. mellifera bee colon- ies naturally infested with the Varroa mite were selected for this purpose. The data were collected in ... See full document

... diseased honeybees on different days following artificial infection (Malone and Gatehouse 1998), though data are lacking on the extent of enzymatic activity in honeybees natu- rally infected with Nosema ... See full document

... The Hermit beetle is a saproxylic species whose development is carried out in decayed wood of old deciduous trees. It is endangered in most European countries, and has been given the highest priority according to ... See full document

... A. mellifera bandasii colonies to Jenter and Grafting queen rearing techniques under two ...by honeybees to focus more breeding offspring in one season and to focus on honey storage another ...local ... See full document

... Our results indicate that changes in flight speed provide a much weaker measure of the perceived optic flow than the centering response. It has been previously observed that bees use optic flow information from both the ... See full document

... in honeybees have long been associated with a virus, appropriately named deformed wing virus, trans- mitted by varroa mites and symptomatic of the final stages of colony collapse due to uncontrolled varroa mite ... See full document

... Context also plays a role in vertebrate memory retrieval, and retrieval failures have been implicated in many cases of performance failure (Bouton, 1993; Kraemer and Golding, 1997; Zentall, 1997; Roberts 1998; Bouton et ... See full document

... UNDERWOOD Department of Entomology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA Accepted 26 November 1990 Summary Thoracic flight temperatures Tth of workers of three species of honeybees [r] ... See full document

... pollinator species, honeybees (Apis mellifera L) are the most important ones due to their abundance and manageability by ...Other species of bees such as bumble bees and leaf-cutter ... See full document

... which was invisible to honeybees. After 2 h and 24 h the numbers of group A and B workers in each cage containing a queen were counted. The test was replicated 4 times. A different pair of mated laying queens, new ... See full document