In New Zealand, the introduced honey bee (Apis mellifera) is a valuable production animal, providing pollination services for horticultural crops and significant export volumes of honey, especially mānuka honey. Honey bees in Zealand are free from number diseases pests such as European foulbrood, acarine disease, small hive beetle, Israeli acute paralysis virus tropilaelaps mites. We sought to ...

The aim of the study was to estimate the impact of antibiotic doxycycline on the spring development of the bee colonies, worker bees’ bodies chemical composition, development of hypopharyngeal glands and some physicochemical parameters of honey. The experiment was conducted during the spring stimulating feeding at apiary of Research Center of Stockbreeding and Agriculture, Smolyan, Bulgaria. Tw...

Pests and pathogens are a continuous threat to the health of Western honey bee Apis mellifera L. Monitoring colonies for arthropod pests, disease-causing bacteria fungi, early detection new invasions is essential maintain pollination services provided by bees. We investigated feasibility using eDNA metabarcoding detect pests in hives across their foraging environment. sampled 13 sources within ...

Background: Plants and bees have coevolved throughout geological time, establishing a mutualistic relationship that results in feeding/resource obtention by the reproductive success of angiosperms.
 Questions Hypotheses: What is floristic composition vegetation visited Caatinga? How are pollen grains from Caatinga bee plant species characterized? Do present characters could be associated w...

Seven major ecological zones of Nigeria with modern functional apiaries were mapped and sampled in the rainy season between April 2016 October 2018 for estimating bee foraging flight range floral species diversity; collating satellite imagery data geospatial zone mapping using GPS (Garmin Etrex 20) to capture coordinates locations their attributes, climatic topographic generating zones: wetland...

Aim: Honey is the earliest sweetener human beings have found. The values of honey are too numerous, such as food source, raw material for industries and symbol employed in therapeutic ceremonies, but it’s availability supply through traditional hunting remain a major constraint to its production supply. This Field trials assessed efficacy Aidan fruit (Tetrapleura tetraptera) extract Pineapple j...

Chemical plant protection is a commonly discussed factor potentially responsible for decline in pollinators and other beneficial insect populations. Various groups of chemicals including persistent organic pollutants could impact a bee colony's welfare and are reported to be present in bee tissue and apiary products. The aim of this work was to evaluate the presence of selected persistent organ...