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Honey bee foraging distance depends on month and forage type
To investigate the distances at which honey bee foragers collect nectar and pollen, we analysed 5,484 decoded waggle dances made to natural forage sites to determine monthly foraging distance for each forage type. Firstly, we found significantly fewer overall dances made for pollen (16.8 %) than for non-pollen, presumably nectar (83.2 %; Pâ<â2.2âĂâ10â23). When we analysed distance against month and forage type, there was a significant interaction between the two factors, which demonstrates that in some months, one forage type is collected at farther distances, but this would reverse in other months. Overall, these data suggest that distance, as a proxy for forage availability, is not significantly and consistently driven by need for one type of forage over the other
A survivor population of wild colonies of European honeybees in the northeastern United States: investigating its genetic structure
Effects of host age on susceptibility to infection and immune gene expression in honey bee queens (Apis mellifera) inoculated with Nosema ceranae
The density of feral honey bee (Apis mellifera) colonies in South East Australia is greater in undisturbed than in disturbed habitats
Characterisation of the British honey bee metagenome
Numerous microbial symbionts, both commensal and pathogenic, are associated with honey bees. Here, the authors genomically characterize this âmetagenomeâ of the British honey bee, identifying a diversity of commensal microbes as well as known and putative pathogen
Heritability of morphological characters used to distinguish European and Africanized honeybees
Predictable invasion dynamics in North American populations of the Eurasian collared dove Streptopelia decaocto
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