This video is a practical demonstration of the "Trapping comb" method, which is part of the handbook for "Alternative methods for Varroa control in honey bee...
Nosemosis control in European honey bees Apis mellifera by silencing the gene encoding Nosema ceranae polar tube protein 3. J Exp Biol. (2018). 2018:184606.
How caste is formed in honeybees is an enduring puzzle. Although queens and workers are genetically identical, queens are reproductive and have a larger body size, develop faster and live longer than workers.
Both Eastern honey bees and Western honey bees preferred building combs with cells in a vertical orientation. Queens showed no clear preference for laying eggs in cells of specific orientations.The oviposition controllers were placed into colonies with the newly built comb and queen.
Honeybees can detect the presence of viruses in food sources, but this detection does not consistently lead to avoidance; in some cases, bees even prefer virus-contaminated foods.
For honey bees, the colony represents the primary organism, so-called superorganisms. Their reproduction is controlled by queen rearing, isolated mating stations, instrumental insemination and various ways to create new superorganisms with the mated queens.
Honeybees only increased yield in 14 percent of the crops.
The oviposition of the honey bee queen affects the development and overall performance of the colony.Conclusion: The observed dramatic expression changes of coding and noncoding RNAs suggest that they may play a critical role in honey bee queens' oviposition.
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