Methods to estimate breeding values in honey bees

Breeding Bees to the Crop

Taste Perception in Honey Bees

Taste is crucial for honeybees for choosing profitable food sources, resins, water sources, and for nestmate recognition. Peripheral taste detection occurs within cuticular hairs, the chaetic and basiconic sensilla, which host gustatory receptor cells and, usually a mechanoreceptor cell. Gustatory sensilla are mostly located on the distal segment of the antennae, on the mouthparts, and on the t...

European foulbrood in honey bees.

European foulbrood (EFB) is a severe bacterial brood disease caused by the Gram-positive bacterium Melissocccus plutonius. The disease has a worldwide distribution and is an increasing problem in some areas. Although the causative agent of EFB was described almost a century ago, many basic aspects of its pathogenesis are still unknown. This review presents both historical results and recent mol...

Varroa Disease in Honey Bees*

The International Symposium on Varroa Disease was organized by the Central Board of Apiculture of the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Industry of the Bulgarian People’s Republic following the initiative of the International Federation of Beekeepers’ Associations – APIMONDIA. It was attended by approximately 30 apiculturists and beekeepers of Bulgaria, Romania, USSR, and Yugoslavia. In Bulgaria...

Cocaine Tolerance in Honey Bees

Increasingly invertebrates are being used to investigate the molecular and cellular effects of drugs of abuse to explore basic mechanisms of addiction. However, in mammals the principle factors contributing to addiction are long-term adaptive responses to repeated drug use. Here we examined whether adaptive responses to cocaine are also seen in invertebrates using the honey bee model system. Re...