Comparison studies of instrumentally inseminated and naturally mated honey bee queens and factors affecting their performance

Acceptance rate of Plebeia droryana queens reared in vitro inside queenless small colonies containing only callow workers (younger and whitish bees) or with callow and older

Small hive beetle infestation levels of honey bee colonies correlate with precipitation and forest cover.. Kayode Lawrence Akinwande,

Bee extracts for virus detection In order to determine which bee viruses were present in these colonies when sampled, and in what amounts, a composite virus purification pro-

In queens inoculated at 6 days post- emergence, the gene expression of eater and vitellogenin in gut tissue was significantly lower in inoculated queens compared to control queens at

destructor high prevalence (>1 %) in honey bee colonies after autumn acaricide treatment (random effect: apiary; n =341).. P =0.048) were associated with risk factors,

Patriline composition of worker popu- lations in honeybee (Apis mellifera) colonies headed by queens inseminated with semen from African and European drones...

Figure 1 reports normalized expression (2 −ΔΔCt ) values for the seven antioxidant- encoding genes explored in the spermathecae of mated and virgin queens and in drone semen (mean

As drifting was always to the other hive in a pair, we specifically compared the numbers of workers at the entrances of the hives of queens who had returned from a flight with