Effect of "spraying" by fighting honey bee queens (Apis mellifera L.) on the temporal structure of fights

We used experimental sprayings to estimate the apparent exposure surface area of a honey bee that enabled converting pesticide field rates into acute doses received by the bees.. In

Keywords: Nosema ceranae; honey bee queen; Apis mellifera; vitellogenin; queen mandibular pheromones; antioxidant capacity..

Nuclei and package bees were prepared on June 25, 2014 and were started in standard Langstroth hives with the brood chambers com- posed of eight, seven, or six frames with drawn

The effect of Chlorella on the total amount of nutrients in the fat body of late summer larvae and subsequent overwintering workers: total fat body mass (a ), and amount ( μg per

Differences between queen- and worker- laid male eggs of the honey bee (Apis mellifera)... L orenz 2 , Kaspar B

Queen honey bees are reared commercially in cups fashioned from beeswax that are placed in queenless colonies to be reared into mature queen cells, a sealed wax cell containing a

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

A second objective was to test the influence of queen ship- ping methods and the effect of temperature on queen fertility, and measuring effects on thermo- regulation inside