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Honey Bee Digestive/ Excretory System Functions By: Clarence Collison “The worker honey bee ingests 4 substances: nectar, honeydew, pollen and water (Morse and Hooper,…
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Queen Banks By: Clarence Collison Queen banking is the storage of queens individually in cages and placed in a colony to be cared for…
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Nestmate Recognition By: Clarence Collison Pheromones are involved in intraspecific chemical communication; however, the glands associated with compounds used in nestmate recognition in honey…
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Immunity Mechanisms and Immunosenescence By: Clarence Collison “Honey bees face many important parasites and pathogens against which they have evolved behavioral, morphological, physiological and…
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Pollen Collection and the Corbiculae By: Clarence Collison Pollen is the main source of protein in a honey bee’s diet and the primary food…
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Minor Pests of Bees By: Clarence Collison Bee Louse – The bee louse, Braula coeca Nitzch is a wingless fly that lives as a…
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Queen/Drone Mating By: Clarence Collison There are many environmental conditions that are required for mating flight activity. Temperature and weather are the most important…
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Tropilaelaps Mites By: Clarence Collison A potential future threat of the western honey bee (Apis mellifera) in North America are the parasitic mites in the…
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By: Clarence Collison Pollen Micronutrients Carbohydrates, proteins, lipids, vitamins and minerals available to honey bees are factors responsible for the amount of progeny produced,…
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Russian Honey Bees By: Clarence Collison The staff of the USDA, Honey Bee Breeding, Genetics and Physiology lab visited the Primorsky Territory on the…
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Honey Bee Races By: Clarence Collison The native range of the honey bee includes the varied habitats of Europe, Africa and the Middle East,…
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Honey Bee Viruses By: Clarence Collison Viruses are obligate intracellular infectious agents that rely on their host machinery for multiplication (i.e., transcription, translation and…
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Requeening By: Clarence Collison The honey bee queen, mother of all individuals in the colony, determines the inherited characteristics of the colony. Periodic replacement…
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Clarence Collison Caste Determination The capacity of the honey bee to produce three phenotypically distinct organisms (two female castes; queens and sterile workers, and…
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Queen Development and Traits Clarence Collison One of the most widely used biomarkers of queen health is brood pattern—defined as the shape left by…
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Division of Labor Individual workers perform different tasks at different ages Clarence Collison Colony life is organized by a complex and sophisticated division of…
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Honey Bee Environmental Monitoring Clarence Collison Human Activities Produce Contaminants Human activities produce contaminants, the amounts and toxicity of which often exceed the environment’s…
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Oxalic Acid Varroa Mite Control Numerous studies have investigated using oxalic acid to control Varroa mites Clarence Collison In order to get a potential…
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Clarence Collison Queen Pheromones Honey bee queens produce a sophisticated array of chemical signals Honey bee queens produce a sophisticated array of chemical signals…
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Robbing Behavior Honey bee robbing behavior may take two different forms Clarence Collison Honey bee robbing behavior may take two different forms: stealing honey…
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