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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Bee foraging"”.
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Calibration and validation of honey bee foraging flight duration as an estimate of distance flown
Organic beekeeping standards require that beekeepers provide for their honey bees (Apis mellifera, L.) with a radius of 6.4 km of foraging land that is free from (3 km) or with reduced use of (additional 3.4 km) synthetic pesticides. This requirement is based on the honey bee's large maximum …
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Drinking from the Magic Well: Studies on Honey Bee Foraging, Recruitment, and Sublethal Stress Responses using Waggle Dance Analysis
… our ecologically and economically critical honey bees by decreasing the availability of quality foraging resources. Importantly, waggle dance analysis provides a versatile and relatively cost-effective tool for investigating the obstacles that honey bees face, such as habitat loss, in our changing …
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Honey Bee (Apis Mellifera) Foraging Preferences are Negatively Correlated with Alfalfa Leafcutting Bee (Megachile Rotundata) Productivity in Virginian Landscapes
Honey bees (Apis mellifera) may serve as bioindicators of habitat quality for themselves and also other insect pollinators because we can observe, decode, map, and analyze the information encoded in the waggle dance communication behavior, which allows us to know where and when bees are collecting …
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Viability of Beekeeping Project as a Means of Income Generation and Environment Conservation at Matipwili Village, Bagamoyo District
… to assess the viability and implementation of beekeeping as a means of income generation and environment conservation. The project comprises of community needs assessment supplemented by socio-economic study and a project implementation. Data were collected using interviews, questionnaires, …
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Complex Time-Keeping in Honey Bees: a Study of the Subset of Foragers Maintaining Multiple Time-Memories.
<p>Accepted theories of honey bee foraging state that foragers are active at only 1 time of day. It has been shown that a few foragers can be trained to forage at multiple times of day and at many locations. The purpose of the current study was to further investigate the phenomenon of foragers …
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Bee-cause - Designing to receive: a project which explores designing landform and soils to receive and support a variety of flowering species in strategically located corridors; bridging the boundary between the cape honey bee foraging grounds and bee pollinated farmlands, as a result creating other socioeconomic, educational and environmental relationships
… The process of crop pollination by Cape honey bees (Apis mellifera capensis). The study found that although no physical conventional barrier stops the bees from flying into the desired agricultural land from their more permanent foraging grounds, they are restricted by the spatial quality of …
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A Hive Mind: Bounded Rationality and Bees
Bees (Anthophila) are experiencing global decline as part of what is being called the Anthropocene extinction. In addition to the drivers of this event, such as climate change, bees are experiencing synergistic challenges from pesticides, poor nutrition, pathogens, and parasites. Bees play a …
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Grip, slip, petals, and pollinators: Linking the biomechanics, behaviour and ecology of interactions between bees and plants
… crucial importance for the interactions between bees and flowers. In this thesis, I explore the biomechanics of attachment and morphological diversity of bee attachment devices, linking this to the behavioural ecology of bee interactions with flowers. Attachment devices come in two main kinds: …
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Can annual floral strips create effective pollinator habitat in Southern Ontario agricultural landscapes?
… species and planting dates creates a continuous foraging source for a number of different pollinator taxa. Clear preferences were found between pollinator species and flower species, indicating a diverse mix is needed to attract flower visitors from all groups.
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Death by a thousand cuts: the role of pesticides, predators, and habitat patch characteristics on wild bee and insect communities
… and economically important taxa such as bees. This dissertation aims to address how habitat degradation in the form of pesticide pollution and altered trophic interactions impact bee biology and how patch physical characteristics affect the persistence and movement of beetles (Order: …
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A little bee told me… using waggle dance analysis and pollen identification to examine foraging of honey bees (Apis mellifera) in mixed agro-urban ecosysems
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2024-09-16 without embargo terms