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source. About 71% of shaking signals occurred before the first five successful foraging flights of the day; other communication signals, such as the waggle dance, were performed more often after the first five successes. Biesmeijer demonstrated that most shakers are foragers and the shaking signal is most often executed by foraging bees on pre-foraging bees, concluding that it is a transfer message for several activities (or activity levels). Sometimes the signal increases activity, as when active bees shake inactive ones. At other times, such as the end of the day, the signal is an inhibitory mechanism. However, the shaking signal is preferentially directed towards inactive bees. All three forms of communication among honey bees are effective in foraging and task management.
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model system, and investigated whether the loss of a domesticated pollinator (the honey bee) could be compensated for by native, wild bee species." Similarly, Brian Dennis and William Kemp write: "Although the domestication of the honey bee is closely connected to the evolution of food-based socio-economic systems in many cultures throughout the world, in current economic terms, and in the U.S. alone, the estimated wholesale value of honey, more than $ 317 million dollars in 2013, pales in comparison to aggregate estimated annual value of pollination services, variously valued at $ 11–15 billion."
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rubbing the head with the forelegs, and rubbing the thorax or abdomen with the middle or hind legs. Inter-grooming is a colony-level behavior, and individuals within the colony gain benefits from their nest mates in this manner. By exhibiting a grooming dance, other nest mates are attracted and assist to remove parasites via stroking with antennae or legs and licking. Grooming limits ectoparasite load within colonies, especially eliminating Varroa mites.
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bees by transmitting pathogens. It found an equal number of studies reporting both positive and negative effects on plant communities. Studies examining resource competition had significant variability in their results while most studies on pathogen transmission pointed to potentially detrimental impacts. The researchers noted that most studies documented the possibility of certain interactions without actually measuring the direct effects.
921:– a site near a clearing and generally about 30 feet (9.1 m) above the ground – where drones from different hives congregate. They detect the presence of a queen in their congregation area by her smell, find her by sight and mate with her in midair; drones can be induced to mate with "dummy" queens with the queen pheromone. A queen will mate multiple times, and may leave to mate several days in a row (weather permitting) until her 1436: 560: 1680: 1598: 1573:, D. E. hives, and miller hives. All U.S. states require beekeepers to use movable frames to allow bee inspectors to check the brood for disease. This allows beekeepers to keep Langstroth, top-bar and D.E. hives without special permission, granted for purposes such as museum use. Modern hives also enable beekeepers to transport bees, moving from field to field as crops require pollinating (a source of income for beekeepers). 878:, during the first three days. After that, larval prospective workers are switched to a diet of mixed pollen and nectar (often called "bee bread"), while prospective queens continue to receive royal jelly. In the absence of flavonoids and the presence of a high-protein diet, female bees grow into queens by developing the vigorous reproductive system necessary to maintain a colony of tens of thousands of daughter workers. 7876: 992:(single, unpaired chromosomes) in their genetic structure, and are descended only from their mother (the queen). In temperate regions, drones are generally expelled from the hive before winter, dying of cold and starvation since they cannot forage, produce honey or care for themselves. Given their larger size (1.5 times that of worker bees), inside the hive it is believed that drones may play a significant role in 1280: 455:. Numerous studies indicate that the species has undergone significant declines in Europe; however, it is not clear if they refer to population reduction of wild or managed colonies. Further research is required to enable differentiation between wild and non-wild colonies in order to determine the conservation status of the species in the wild, meaning self sustaining, without treatments or management. 1813: 2224:, resulting in starvation. The pollinia may also stick to the bee's tarsal claws, causing a lack of climbing ability and honey gathering which may result in expulsion from the colony leading to death. Native butterflies, moths, flies, beetles, bees and wasps are common milkweed visitors which are often able to escape without issue, though some species of 2083:. The reason for elevated recombination rates in social Hymenoptera is not fully understood, but one theory is that it is related to their social behaviour. The increased genetic diversity resulting from high recombination rates could make the workers less vulnerable to parasites and facilitate their specialisations to different tasks in the colony. 662:
start "piping", just prior to emerging as adults, and, when the daughter queens eventually emerge, they fight each other until only one remains; the survivor then becomes the new queen. If one of the sisters emerges before the others, she may kill her siblings while they are still pupae, before they have a chance to emerge as adults.
1623: 1198:. Although the round dance tells other foragers that food is within 50 metres (160 ft) of the hive, it provides insufficient information about direction. The waggle dance, which may be vertical or horizontal, provides more detail about the distance and direction of a food source. Foragers are also thought to rely on their 780:, with which they defend the hive. Unlike those of bees of any other genus and of the queens of their own species, the stinger of worker western honey bees is barbed. Contrary to popular belief, a bee does not always die soon after stinging; this misconception is based on the fact that a bee will usually die after stinging a 494:. The species is believed to have originated in Africa or Asia, and it spread naturally through Africa, the Middle East and Europe. Humans are responsible for its considerable additional range, introducing European subspecies into North America (early 1600s), South America, Australia, New Zealand, and eastern Asia. 906: 1271:. When the duration of trophallaxis pairings was measured, it was found that like human social interactions, there are durable long-term trends for each individual bee. There is less inter-individual variation than found in humans however, possibly reflecting the higher genetic relatedness between hivema 1601: 2524:
With an increased number of honey bees in a specific area due to beekeeping, domesticated bees and native wild bees often have to compete for the limited habitat and food sources available. Western honey bees may become defensive in response to the seasonal arrival of competition from other colonies,
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concur with us in the tradition that it was brought from Europe; but, when, and by whom, we know not. The bees have generally extended themselves into the country, a little in advance of the white settlers. The Indians therefore call them the white man's fly, and consider their approach as indicating
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Hygienic behavior targeting brood cells consists of three main steps: detection, uncapping and removal. Adults are able to identify the distinct odors associated with healthy or unhealthy broods and subsequently remove the unhealthy ones from the hive. Hygienic behavior effectively responds to Varroa
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These modifications, along with artificial change of location, have improved western honey bees from the point of view of the beekeeper, and simultaneously made them more dependent on beekeepers for their survival. In Europe, cold weather survival was likely selected for, consciously or not, while in
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The western honey bee needs an internal body temperature of 35 °C (95 °F) to fly; this temperature is maintained in the nest to develop the brood, and is the optimal temperature for the creation of wax. The temperature on the periphery of the cluster varies with outside air temperature, and
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When a fertile female worker produces drones, a conflict arises between her interests and those of the queen. The worker shares one-half of her genes with the drone and one-quarter with her brothers, favouring her offspring over those of the queen. The queen shares one-half of her genes with her sons
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eggs. Workers are essential for social structure and proper colony functioning. They carry out the main tasks of the colony, because the queen is occupied solely with reproducing. These females raise their sister workers and future queens that eventually leave the nest to start their own colony. They
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used to build the hive, clean, maintain and guard it, raise the young and forage for nectar and pollen; the nature of the worker's role varies with age. For the first 10 days of their lives, worker bees clean the hive and feed the larvae. After this, they begin building comb cells. On days 16 through
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A 2017 systematic review looked at the impacts of managed bees on wild bee populations. In addition to honey bees, this includes bumble bees and some solitary bees. The analysis looked at resource competition and changes in plant communities. It also discussed how managed bees may interact with wild
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Propolis is a resinous mixture collected by honey bees from tree buds, sap flows or other botanical sources, which is used as a sealant for unwanted open spaces in the hive. Although propolis is alleged to have health benefits (tincture of propolis is marketed as a cold and flu remedy), it may cause
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while holding another bee with its front legs. Jacobus Biesmeijer, who examined shaking signals in a forager's life and the conditions leading to its performance, found that experienced foragers executed 92% of observed shaking signals and 64% of these signals were made after the discovery of a food
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is 22–25 °C (72–77 °F). During flight, the bee's relatively large flight muscles create heat which must be dissipated. The honey bee uses evaporative cooling to release heat through its mouth. Under hot conditions, heat from the thorax is dissipated through the head; the bee regurgitates a
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The behavior of bees using their legs and mandibles to remove parasites like mites and dust-like materials from their bodies is referred to as grooming. Grooming includes self-grooming (auto-grooming) and inter-grooming (allo-grooming) between nest mates. Self-grooming involves pulling on antennae,
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Since 2018 a new version of the honey bee genome is available on NCBI (Amel_HAv3.1, BioProject ID: PRJNA471592). This assembly contains full chromosome length scaffolds, which means that the sequence data for each chromosome is contiguous, and not split between multiple pieces called scaffolds. The
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Honey bees are one of the products of a beehive. They can be purchased as mated queens, in spring packages of a queen along with two to five pounds (0.91 to 2.27 kg) of honey bees, as nucleus colonies (which include frames of brood), or as full colonies. Commerce of western honey bees dates back to
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The lifespan of workers varies considerably over the year in regions with long winters. Workers born in spring and summer work hard, and live only a few weeks, but those born in autumn remain inside for several months as the colony clusters. On average during the year, about 1% of a colony's worker
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The very generalized nature of the honey bee's nectar-gathering activities, potentially visiting dozens of different species in a single day, means that a flower visited by a honey bee will often get very little pollen from its species. This diminished pollination can reduce the plant's ability to
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On the other hand, P. R. Oxley and B. P. Oldroyd (2010) consider the domestication of western honey bees, at best, partial. Oldroyd observes that the lack of full domestication is somewhat surprising, given that people have kept bees for at least 7,000 years. Instead, beekeepers have found ways to
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wrote "The Bee I may well reckon a domestic insect, being so pliable to the benefit of the keeper." More recently, many biologists working on pollination take the domesticated status of western honey bees for granted. For example, Rachael Winfree and colleagues write "We used crop pollination as a
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when they lodge. This apparatus (including barbs on the stinger) is thought to have evolved in response to predation by vertebrates, since the barbs do not function (and the stinger apparatus does not detach) unless the stinger is embedded in elastic material. The barbs do not always "catch", so a
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and return to the hive, where worker bees remove the nectar. The worker bees digest the raw nectar for about 30 minutes, using digestive enzymes to break down the complex sugars into simpler ones. Raw honey is then spread in empty honeycomb cells to dry, reducing its water content to less than 20
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The queen lays all the eggs in a healthy colony. The number and pace of egg-laying is controlled by weather, resource availability and specific racial characteristics. Queens generally begin to slow egg-laying in the early fall, and may stop during the winter. Egg-laying generally resumes in late
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comb. When the queen finishes her larval feeding and pupates, she moves into a head-downward position and later chews her way out of the cell. At pupation, workers cap (seal) the cell. The queen asserts control over the worker bees by releasing a complex suite of pheromones, known as queen scent.
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Queens are not raised in the typical horizontal brood cells of the honeycomb. A queen cell is larger and oriented vertically. If workers sense that an old queen is weakening, they produce emergency cells (known as supersedure cells) from cells with eggs or young larvae and which protrude from the
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prepared by worker bees. The egg hatches into a legless, eyeless larva fed by "nurse" bees (worker bees who maintain the interior of the colony). After about a week, the larva is sealed in its cell by the nurse bees and begins its pupal stage. After another week, it emerges as an adult bee. It is
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and stored almost indefinitely. In the temperate climates to which western honey bees are adapted, the bees gather in their hive and wait out the cold season, during which the queen may stop laying. During this time, activity is slow, and the colony consumes its stores of honey used for metabolic
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stages of these "daughter queens" are nearly complete, the old queen and approximately two-thirds of the adult workers leave the colony in a swarm, traveling some distance to find a new location suitable for building a hive (e.g., a hollow tree trunk). In the old colony, the daughter queens often
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for his study of honey bee communication, noticed that bees communicate with dance. Through these dances, bees communicate information regarding the distance, the situation, and the direction of a food source by the dances of the returning (honey bee) worker bee on the vertical comb of the hive.
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by rearing the offspring most related to them. This relationship leads to a phenomenon called "worker policing". In these rare situations, other worker bees in the hive, who are genetically more related to the queen's sons than those of the fertile workers, patrol the hive and remove worker-laid
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Emergency supersedure can generally be recognized because new queen cells are built out from comb cells, instead of hanging from the bottom of a frame. Regardless of the trigger, workers develop existing larvae into queens by continuing to feed them royal jelly, rather than switching them to bee
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of crops; this service accounts for much of the species' commercial value. In 2005, the estimated commercial value of western honey bees was just under $ 200 billion worldwide. A large number of the crop species farmed worldwide depend on it. Although orchards and fields have increased in size,
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Humoral and cellular immune mechanisms of western honey bees are similar to those of other insects. Trans-generational immune priming (TGIP) is an approach that insects use to pass specific immunity from one generation to the next. The offspring are more likely to overcome pathogens that their
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Under ordinary circumstances, if the queen dies or is removed, reproduction in workers increases because a significant proportion of workers then have activated ovaries. The workers produce a last batch of drones before the hive collapses. Although during this period worker policing is usually
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In very rare instances, workers subvert the policing mechanisms of the hive, laying eggs faster than other workers remove them; this is known as anarchic syndrome. Anarchic workers can activate their ovaries at a higher rate and contribute a greater proportion of males to the hive. Although an
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Sources may claim that honey bees (Apis mellifera) have become an invasive species in the United States, outcompeting native pollinators for food. However, while the USDA lists Africanized honeybees (Apis mellifera scutellata) as an invasive species, it does not classify western honey bees as
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Western honey bees can forage over a 30 °C (86 °F) air-temperature range because of behavioral and physiological mechanisms for regulating the temperature of their flight muscles. From low to high air temperatures, the mechanisms are: shivering before flight and stopping flight for
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In cold climates, some beekeepers have kept colonies alive (with varying degrees of success) by moving them indoors for winter. While this can protect the colonies from extremes of temperature and make winter care and feeding more convenient for the beekeeper, it increases the risk of
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Bee brood, the eggs, larvae, or pupae of honey bees, is edible and highly nutritious. Bee brood contains the same amount of protein that beef or poultry does. Bee brood is often harvested as a byproduct when the beekeeper has excess bees and does not wish to have any more.
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existence of a highly contiguous reference genome for a species enables more detailed investigations of evolutionary processes that affect the genome as well as more accurate estimations of for example differentiation between populations and diversity within populations.
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Another means of communication is the shaking signal, also known as the jerking dance, vibration dance or vibration signal. Although the shaking signal is most common in worker communication, it also appears in reproductive swarming. A worker bee vibrates its body
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She fertilizes each egg (with stored sperm from the spermatheca) as it is laid in a worker-sized cell. Eggs laid in drone-sized (larger) cells are left unfertilized; these unfertilized eggs, with half as many genes as queen or worker eggs, develop into drones.
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Throughout the rest of the growing season, the colony produces many workers, who gather pollen and nectar as cold-season food; the average population of a healthy hive in midsummer may be as high as 40,000 to 80,000 bees. Nectar from flowers is processed by
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Another form of worker policing is aggression toward fertile females. Some studies suggest a queen pheromone which may help workers distinguish worker-laid and queen-laid eggs, but others indicate egg viability as the key factor in eliciting the behavior.
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The hive is filled with honey, leaving little room for new eggs. This will trigger a swarm, where the old queen will take about half the worker bees to establish a new colony, and leave a new queen with the other half of the workers to continue the old
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20, workers receive nectar and pollen from older workers and store it. After the 20th day, a worker leaves the hive and spends the remainder of its life as a forager. Although worker bees are usually infertile females, when some subspecies are stressed
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into honey bee queens can prevent 26% of death in their offspring. Offspring produced by queens orally vaccinated in this way were 30%–50% more likely to survive infection. Immune priming in queens triples differentiated hemocytes in their offspring.
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require two hives per acre, or 2,000 m (22,000 sq ft) per hive, for maximum yield, and pollination is dependent on the importation of hives from warmer climates. Almond pollination (in February and March in the U.S.) is the largest
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more than usual to sons of the queen. Then the benefit of policing is negated. Experiments confirming this hypothesis have shown a correlation between higher mating rates and increased rates of worker policing in many species of social
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Our review found that the majority of studies reach the conclusion that managed bees negatively affect, or have the potential to negatively affect, wild bees through competition, changes in plant communities, or transmission of
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Royal jelly is a honey bee secretion used to nourish the larvae and queen. It is marketed for its alleged but unsupported claims of health benefits. On the other hand, it may cause severe allergic reactions in some individuals.
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increase in the number of drones decreases the overall productivity of the hive, it increases the reproductive fitness of the drones' mother. Anarchic syndrome is an example of selection working in opposite directions at the
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Honey is the complex substance made from nectar and sweet deposits from plants and trees, which are gathered, modified and stored in the comb by honey bees. Honey is a biological mixture of inverted sugars, primarily
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Some entomologists have observed that non-native, feral western honey bees can have negative impacts within their non-native environment. Imported bees may displace native bees, and may also promote reproduction of
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Below 7–10 °C (45–50 °F) bees are immobile, and above 38 °C (100 °F) their activity slows. Western honey bees can tolerate temperatures up to 50 °C (122 °F) for short periods.
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The old queen dies suddenly, a situation known as emergency supersedure. The worker bees find several eggs (or larvae) of the appropriate age range and feed them royal jelly to try to develop them into new
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species may be found with dead western honey bees stuck to their flowers. The non-native western honey bees are attracted to the flowers but are not adapted to their pollination mechanisms. The milkweed
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produce seeds, especially when the honey bees are squeezing out the native pollinators for a species, a problem occurring all over the United States because of honey bees and other invasive species.
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and storage in a honey cell for partial dehydration. Nectar and honey provide the energy for the bees' flight muscles and for heating the hive during the winter. Western honey bees also collect
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Mature worker bees secrete beeswax from glands on their abdomen, using it to form the walls and caps of the comb. When honey is harvested, the wax can be collected for use in products like
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Western honey bees adapted to the local environments as they spread geographically. These adaptations include synchronizing colony cycles to the timing of local flower resources, forming a
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also mean that the specialized pollinator will be covered mainly in its host's specific pollen. Unlike native bees, they do not properly extract or transfer pollen from plants with
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and adult. The complex social structure of western honey bee hives means that all of these life stages occur simultaneously throughout much of the year. The queen deposits a single
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analysis. African subspecies belong to branch A, northwestern European subspecies branch M, southwestern European subspecies branch C and Middle Eastern subspecies branch O.
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that specifically visit the early-blooming male flowers before sunrise, when honey bees are inactive, and then return to pollinate the female flowers later in the day. Such
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Pheromones (substances involved in chemical communication) are essential to honey bee survival. Western honey bees rely on pheromones for nearly all behaviors, including
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indeed mentions a species of honey-bee in Brasil. But this has no sting, and is therefore different from the one we have, which resembles perfectly that of Europe. The
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source for brood-rearing. Excess pollen can be collected from the hive; although it is sometimes consumed as a dietary supplement by humans, bee pollen may cause an
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over time. Although crystallized honey is acceptable for human use, bees can only use liquid honey and will remove and discard any crystallized honey from the hive.
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by humans have created western honey bees which produce far more honey than the colony needs, and beekeepers (also known as apiarists) harvest the surplus honey.
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bees. Since they do not have ovipositors, they do not have stingers. Drone honey bees do not forage for nectar or pollen. The primary purpose of a drone is to
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without changing the DNA sequence, but modifications on DNA activity. DNA methylation later was identified to play an important role in gene regulation and
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winter when the days lengthen, peaking in the spring. At the height of the season, the queen may lay over 2,500 eggs per day (more than her body mass).
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event in the world, requiring more than one-third of all managed honey bees in the country. Bees are also moved en masse for pollination of apples in
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which is housed, transported by and sometimes fed by beekeepers. Honey bees do not survive and reproduce individually, but as part of the colony (a
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is depleted near the end of her life, she begins laying more unfertilized eggs; for this reason, beekeepers often replace queens every year or two.
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Western honey bees also change the precision of the waggle dance to indicate the type of site that is set as a new goal. Their close relatives,
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In most climates, western honey bees swarm in the spring and early summer, when there is an abundance of blooming flowers from which to collect
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Davies, N.R., Krebs, J.R., and West, S.A. An Introduction to Behavioral Ecology. 4th ed. West Sussex: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012. Print. pp. 387–388
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activities. With human assistance, the western honey bee now occupies every continent except Antarctica. Western honey bees are threatened by
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and one-quarter with the sons of fertile female workers. This pits the worker against the queen and other workers, who try to maximize their
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Châline, N.; Martin, S.J.; Ratnieks, F.L.W. (2004). "Worker policing persists in a hopelessly queenless honey bee colony (Apis mellifera)".
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Blum, M.S. 1992. Honey bee pheromones in The Hive and the Honey Bee, revised edition (Dadant and Sons: Hamilton, Illinois), pages 385–389.
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which persist year after year. Because of this high degree of sociality and permanence, western honey bee colonies can be considered
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Winston, M.; Dropkin, J.; Taylor, O. (1981). "Demography and life history characteristics of two honey bee races (Apis mellifera)".
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than the fruit fly and the mosquito. The genome sequence also revealed that several groups of genes, particularly those related to
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Beekman, Madeleine; et al. (2008). "Dance Precision of Apis florea—Clues to the Evolution of the Honeybee Dance Language?".
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Barron, A.; Oldroyd, B; Ratnieks, F.L.W. (2001). "Worker reproduction in honey-bees (Apis) and the anarchic syndrome: a review".
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have also depleted bee populations, particularly when used in excess of label directions, as bee pests and diseases (including
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droplet of warm internal fluid — a "honeycrop droplet" – which reduces the temperature of its head by 10 °C (18 °F).
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heat production in the cold season. In mid- through late winter, the queen starts laying again. This is probably triggered by
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Leung, R; Ho, A; Chan, J; Choy, D; Lai, CK (March 1997). "Royal jelly consumption and hypersensitivity in the community".
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parents have encountered. TGIP resembles adaptive immune responses but with different underlying mechanisms. TGIP against
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Western honey bee populations face threats to their survival increasing interests into other pollinator species, like the
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Schneider, S. S., P. K. Visscher, Camazine, S. "Vibration Signal Behavior of Waggle-dancers in Swarms of the Honey Bee,
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particularly Africanized bees which may be on the offence and defence year round due to their tropical origin. In the
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quipped "... it seems that the flowers are better adapted to kill hive-bees than to produce fruit through their aid."
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Choi, Sang Hyun; Rao, Vikyath D.; Gernat, Tim; Hamilton, Adam R.; Robinson, Gene E.; Goldenfeld, Nigel (2020-11-30).
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a new queen. Many drones mate with a given queen in flight; each dies immediately after mating, since the process of
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in Africa, and enhanced foraging behavior in desert areas. All together, these variations resulted in 31 recognized
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from regurgitated honey-sac contents. Body temperatures differ, depending on caste and expected foraging rewards.
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bees die naturally per day. Except for the queen, all of a colony's workers are replaced about every four months.
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Thompson, Helen; Hunt, Lynn (1999). "Extrapolating from Honeybees to Bumblebees in Pesticide Risk Assessment".
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Humans have been collecting honey from western honey bees for thousands of years, with evidence in the form of
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Torto, Baldwyn; Boucias, Drion G.; Arbogast, Richard T.; Tumlinson, James H.; Teal, Peter E. A. (2007-05-15).
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There is some degree of variability of sociality between individuals. Like a great many other social insects,
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insects, and it is the primary species maintained by beekeepers to this day for both its honey production and
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Yan, Hua; Bonasio, Roberto; Simola, Daniel F.; Liebig, Jürgen; Berger, Shelley L.; Reinberg, Danny (2015).
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percent. When nectar is being processed, honey bees create a draft through the hive by fanning with their
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mites saved most commercial operations; new bee breeds are beginning to reduce beekeeper dependence on
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The queen bee is a fertile female, who, unlike workers (which are also female), has a fully developed
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Friedli, Andrea; Williams, Geoffrey R.; Bruckner, Selina; Neumann, Peter; Straub, Lars (March 2020).
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is the Latin for 'honey-bearing' or 'honey-carrying', referring to the species' production of honey.
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also forage and return to the nest with nectar and pollen to feed the young, and defend the colony.
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severe allergic reactions in some individuals. Propolis is also used in wood finishes, and gives a
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throughout the hive. This is known as supersedure, and at its end, the old queen is usually killed.
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related to smell outnumber those for taste, and the European honey bee has fewer genes regulating
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Beekeepers provide a place for the colony to live and store honey. There are seven basic types of
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bread, and by extending the selected larvae's cells to house the developing larger-bodied queens.
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Periodically, the colony determines that a new queen is needed. There are three general causes:
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The subspecies are divided into four major branches, based on work by Ruttner and confirmed by
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Visualization showing the various importations of the western honey bee into the United States.
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Miorin, P.L.; Levy Junior, N.C.; Custodio, A.R.; Bretz, W.A.; Marcucci, M.C. (November 2003).
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Oldroyd, B.; Ratnieks, Francis (2002). "Egg-marking pheromones in honey-bees Apis mellifera".
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paintings depict beekeeping, before 2600 BC. Europeans brought bees to North America in 1622.
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food crops. Their calculations came up with a figure of US$ 14.6 billion in food crop value.
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manage bees using hives, while the bees remain "largely unchanged from their wild cousins".
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Do managed bees have negative effects on wild bees?: A systematic review of the literature
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Africa, selection probably favoured the ability to survive heat, drought, and heavy rain.
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Petersen, Jessica D.; Reiners, Stephen; Nault, Brian A.; Ollerton, Jeff (24 July 2013).
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Jung-Hoffmann, L (1966). "Die Determination von Königin und Arbeiterin der Honigbiene".
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resistance and repopulation by resistant breeds. Although it is generally believed that
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Edentata: The Newsletter of the IUCN/SSC Anteater, Sloth and Armadillo Specialist Group
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Most flowering plants depend on specialized pollinators to efficiently fertilize them.
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have been found dead on the flowers. After removing over 140 dead bees from a patch of
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Biesmeijer, Jacobus. "The Occurrence and Context of the Shaking Signal in Honey Bees (
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The Domestication and Spread of European Honey Bees for Agriculture in North America"
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After several days of orientation in and around the hive, the young queen flies to a
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A bee swarm. Bees are unaggressive in this state, since they have no hive to protect.
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fertile eggs. Since workers are not fully sexually developed, they do not mate with
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Lindauer, Martin. "Communication among social bees". Harvard University Press 1971.
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C. L. Gross & D. Mackay (1998). "Honeybees reduce fitness in the pioneer shrub
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The old queen begins to fail, which is thought to be demonstrated by a decrease in
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bee may occasionally pull its stinger free and fly off unharmed (or sting again).
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common for defined regions of the comb to be filled with young bees (also called "
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Behavioral and physiological differences between castes and subcastes arise from
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L.) from Brazil and Uruguay viewed through mitochondrial DNA COI–COII patterns"
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Winston, Mark L. The biology of the honey bee. Harvard University Press, 1991.
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Biewer, Matthias; Schlesinger, Francisca; Hasselmann, Martin (10 April 2015).
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additional shivering, passive body-temperature regulation based on work, and
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Ratnieks, F.; Visscher, P. Kirk (1989). "Worker policing in the honeybee".
3650: 3576:"Roles of individual honeybee workers and drones in colonial thermogenesis" 3560: 3542: 3503: 3462: 3192: 3146: 3125: 3036: 2646: 2606: 2570:, a behavior rarely exhibited by honey bees. Honey bees reduce fruiting in 2490: 2412: 2347: 2301: 1936: 1890: 1393: 1334: 1268: 1237: 1195: 1129: 985: 665:
Once she has dispatched all of her rivals, the new queen, the only fertile
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Molecular confirmation of a fourth lineage in honeybees from the Near East
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Blacquière, T.; Smagghe, G.; van Gestel, C.A.; Mommaerts, V. (May 2012).
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Bernd Heinrich (1979). "Keeping a cool head: honeybee thermoregulation".
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Workers are females produced by the queen that develop from fertilized,
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Cognitive Ecology of Pollination: Animal Behaviour and Floral Evolution
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of a queen in most subspecies is three to five years, reports from the
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Mortensen, Ashley N.; Schmehl, Daniel R.; Ellis, Jamie (August 2013).
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Wenseleers, T.; Helanterä, H.; Hart, A.; Ratnieks, F. L. W. (2004).
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as early as 1622, when the first colonies of bees were shipped from
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to help locate a food source after they are directed by the dances.
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honey bees with high amounts of flight experience exhibit increased
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attempted to quantify the effects of the western honey bee on only
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Pirk, C.; Neumann, P.; Hepburn, R.; Moritz, R.; Tautz, J. (2003).
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Reptile and amphibian predators of western honey bees include the
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An important process that shapes the honey bee genome is meiotic
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the western honey bee. Since 2007, attention has been devoted to
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from being clogged with pollen from other species. In 2000, Drs.
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have selected western honey bees for several desirable features:
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S. K. Javorekac; K. E. Mackenziec; S. P. Vander Kloetbc (2002).
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recognition, food production and integrating colony activities.
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Peanut-like queen brood cells extend outward from the brood comb
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Previously it was believed that the various subspecies were all
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Lars Chittka, James D. Thomson & Nickolas M. Waser (1999).
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Video of western honey bee collecting pollen from blue crocuses
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Honey bees removed from the hive for inspection by a beekeeper
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is thought to have originated in Europe, Asia, and Africa.
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before local hives have built up their populations. Almond
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Western honey bee behavior has been extensively studied.
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may play a key role in buffering insecticide exposure.
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The 263: 254: 248: 235: 143: 135: 124: 120: 113: 95: 93: 92: 87: 82: 77: 72: 67: 62: 57: 52: 47: 42: 37: 29: 28: 25: 17: 12: 11: 5: 8390: 8380: 8379: 8374: 8369: 8364: 8359: 8354: 8349: 8344: 8339: 8334: 8329: 8324: 8319: 8314: 8309: 8304: 8299: 8294: 8289: 8284: 8279: 8262: 8261: 8259: 8258: 8245: 8232: 8219: 8206: 8193: 8180: 8170: 8157: 8144: 8131: 8118: 8105: 8092: 8079: 8066: 8057:Fauna Europaea 8053: 8040: 8027: 8014: 8001: 7988: 7975: 7965: 7961:apis-mellifera 7952: 7939: 7934:Apis mellifera 7924: 7908: 7906: 7904:Apis mellifera 7900: 7899: 7885: 7884: 7872: 7869: 7868: 7866: 7865: 7860: 7855: 7849: 7847: 7841: 7840: 7838: 7837: 7836: 7835: 7830: 7825: 7815: 7810: 7805: 7800: 7795: 7789: 7787: 7783: 7782: 7780: 7779: 7772:Lafcadio Hearn 7769: 7757: 7752: 7747: 7745:Jan Swammerdam 7741: 7739: 7735: 7734: 7731: 7730: 7728: 7727: 7722: 7717: 7712: 7707: 7702: 7696: 7694: 7686: 7685: 7683: 7682: 7681: 7680: 7671:Model organism 7668: 7663: 7662: 7661: 7651: 7646: 7641: 7640: 7639: 7629: 7628: 7627: 7622: 7617: 7612: 7607: 7602: 7592: 7587: 7581: 7579: 7571: 7570: 7568: 7567: 7562: 7557: 7552: 7547: 7545:Insect farming 7542: 7537: 7532: 7527: 7522: 7516: 7514: 7510: 7509: 7507: 7506: 7501: 7496: 7490: 7488: 7482: 7481: 7479: 7478: 7477: 7476: 7466: 7465: 7464: 7459: 7448: 7446: 7440: 7439: 7437: 7436: 7431: 7429:Artificial fly 7426: 7421: 7415: 7413: 7409: 7408: 7406: 7405: 7400: 7399: 7398: 7388: 7383: 7378: 7377: 7376: 7369: 7362:Insects in art 7358: 7356: 7349: 7338: 7337: 7326: 7325: 7318: 7311: 7303: 7294: 7293: 7291: 7290: 7285: 7280: 7275: 7269: 7267: 7263: 7262: 7260: 7259: 7254: 7252:United Kingdom 7249: 7244: 7239: 7234: 7229: 7224: 7219: 7213: 7211: 7205: 7204: 7202: 7201: 7196: 7190: 7188: 7184: 7183: 7181: 7180: 7175: 7170: 7165: 7160: 7155: 7150: 7142: 7140: 7136: 7135: 7133: 7132: 7127: 7125:Queen excluder 7122: 7117: 7112: 7107: 7102: 7100:Wax foundation 7097: 7092: 7087: 7084:Stewarton hive 7057: 7051: 7049: 7045: 7044: 7042: 7041: 7036: 7031: 7026: 7021: 7020: 7019: 7009: 7004: 6999: 6993: 6991: 6987: 6986: 6984: 6983: 6981:Honey bee race 6978: 6971: 6964: 6957: 6950: 6943: 6936: 6929: 6922: 6915: 6908: 6901: 6894: 6887: 6880: 6873: 6870:Apis laboriosa 6866: 6861: 6856: 6851: 6846: 6841: 6836: 6834:Cape honey bee 6831: 6826: 6820: 6818: 6814: 6813: 6811: 6810: 6805: 6800: 6795: 6790: 6784: 6782: 6778: 6777: 6775: 6774: 6769: 6764: 6759: 6753: 6751: 6747: 6746: 6738: 6737: 6730: 6723: 6715: 6709: 6708: 6695: 6691:Apis mellifera 6686: 6683:Apis mellifera 6678: 6673: 6666: 6665:External links 6663: 6661: 6660: 6653:Apis mellifera 6649: 6606: 6603: 6583:(5): 329–335. 6571:Apis mellifera 6564: 6555:Apis mellifera 6551: 6538: 6534: 6532: 6529: 6527: 6526: 6513:(2): 265–279. 6501:A. nigrocincta 6485: 6476: 6457:(2): 169–178. 6435: 6421: 6402:(3): 147–166. 6386: 6341:(6): 459–471. 6321: 6278: 6253: 6227: 6209: 6186: 6148: 6134: 6111:Misumena vatia 6100: 6063: 6011: 5954: 5918:(2): 248–260. 5898: 5886: 5856: 5795: 5766:(4): 189–197. 5743: 5683: 5623: 5555: 5504:Apis mellifera 5486: 5443: 5440:. Apr 5, 2010. 5425: 5393: 5384:Z Bienenforsch 5374: 5323: 5309: 5286:(3): 295–311. 5266: 5251: 5238:(3): 197–207. 5215: 5202:(1): 185–208. 5180: 5159:(5): 913–920. 5139: 5109: 5070: 5043:(8): 361–377. 5018: 4997: 4958: 4937:(3): 345–351. 4911: 4882: 4853: 4832: 4775: 4768: 4748: 4693: 4684:|journal= 4666: 4640: 4617: 4570: 4548:10.1.1.693.292 4541:(6): 345–353. 4521: 4464: 4447: 4412: 4390:Apis mellifera 4357: 4343: 4336: 4316: 4294: 4264: 4186: 4127: 4118: 4105: 4054: 4019: 4012: 3992: 3979: 3969: 3916: 3894:(3): 130–137. 3872: 3863: 3828: 3809:(3): 199–208. 3793: 3774:(6): 590–591. 3758: 3699: 3656: 3615: 3566: 3509: 3488:(1): 435–452. 3468: 3427: 3407: 3394:AnAge database 3388:Apis mellifera 3374: 3345:(1): 253–273. 3322: 3302: 3287: 3264: 3229:(5): 611–619. 3206: 3171:(3): 407–413. 3152: 3131: 3071: 2998:Apis mellifera 2981: 2952: 2907: 2881: 2854: 2827:(2): 226–233. 2810: 2774: 2735: 2685:Apis mellifera 2671: 2669: 2666: 2665: 2664: 2659: 2654: 2649: 2644: 2637: 2634: 2630:Apis mellifera 2586:Apis mellifera 2581: 2578: 2527:United Kingdom 2478: 2475: 2459: 2456: 2450: 2447: 2445: 2442: 2425: 2422: 2420: 2417: 2386:summer tanager 2353:including the 2310:water striders 2281: 2278: 2269:A. sullivantii 2196: 2193: 2189:heterozygosity 2185:neonicotinoids 2177:tracheal mites 2139:, for example 2133:Apis mellifera 2114:North American 2093: 2090: 2088: 2085: 1959: 1956: 1947:Main article: 1944: 1941: 1928:Main article: 1925: 1922: 1913:Main article: 1910: 1907: 1872: 1869: 1853:Main article: 1850: 1847: 1778:Main article: 1775: 1772: 1719:growing season 1676: 1673: 1651: 1648: 1594: 1591: 1583:carbon dioxide 1488: 1487: 1456:. 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