Recent losses in honey bee colonies are unusual in their severity, geographical distribution, and, in some cases, failure to present recognized characteristics of known disease. Domesticated honey bees face numerous pests and pathogens, tempting hypotheses that colony collapses arise from exposure to new or resurgent pathogens. Here we explore the incidence and abundance of currently known hone...

We previously characterized and quantified the influence of land use on survival and productivity of colonies positioned in six apiaries and found that colonies in apiaries surrounded by more land in uncultivated forage experienced greater annual survival, and generally more honey production. Here, detailed metrics of honey bee health were assessed over three years in colonies positioned in the...

Virtualization Mechanisms for Mobility, Security and System Administration Shaya Potter This dissertation demonstrates that operating system virtualization is an effective method for solving many different types of computing problems. We have designed novel systems that make use of commodity software while solving problems that were not conceived when the software was originally written. We sho...

In agriculture, honey bees play a critical role as commercial pollinators of crop monocultures which depend on insect pollination. Hence, the demise of honey bee colonies in Europe, USA, and Asia caused much concern and initiated many studies and research programmes aiming at elucidating the factors negatively affecting honey bee health and survival. Most of these studies look at individual fac...

This paper presents the results of a study which was aimed at determining concentration Fusarium fungi and their mycotoxins in fresh bee pollen, stored for different periods. The analysed parameters included palynological analysis, moisture content, fungal counts, identification toxigenic profiles. In this study, 45 pollen samples collected from same apiary families were investigated. Palynolog...

Abstract Honeybee venom (HBV) is an important product of beehives, and its benefits for health have been rediscovered by modern medicine. Since HBV has the potential to treat some diseases, quality production conditions require a detailed investigation. The objective this study understand how season, harvesting time (day or night), site beehives (inside entrance) geographic location affects thr...

Abstract Climate change is an important driver of the spread apiary pests and honeybee predators. These impact on one economically most pollinators thus pose serious threats to functioning both natural ecosystems crops. We investigated predicted climate in periods 2040–2060 2060–2080 potential distribution European beewolf Philanthus triangulum , a specialized predator. modelled its using MaxEn...