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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"apiculture"”.
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Wireless sensor networks, actuation, and signal processing for apiculture
Recent United Nations reports have stressed the growing constraint of food supply for Earth's growing human population. Honey bees are a vital part of the food chain as the most important pollinator for a wide range of crops. Protecting the honey bee population worldwide, and enabling them to …
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Spiritual Beekeeping: An Ethnographic Exploration of Sacred Apiculture in Present-day United States
… many have acknowledged the existence of sacred apiculture traditions, very little research has been undertaken to understand the practices, experiences, and cosmologies of beekeepers who cultivate spiritual relationships with bees. Historians and researchers have observed sacred apiculture …
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Beekeeping for vocational agriculture students
Much information is available in the field of Apiculture, some technical and some practical. It would appear, however, that there is justification for an attempt to provide information of a practical nature for use in high school Vocational Agricultural classes. Available publications either are …
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Surveillance and improved control of American foulbrood in Saskatchewan honey bees through the detection of Paenibacillus larvae spores in pooled, extracted honey
… or operation level within antibiotic-reliant apiculture. Large-scale, commercial honey bee operations in Saskatchewan, Canada, with a history of antimicrobial use and recent outbreaks of AFB were clinically characterized and opportunistically sampled to compare the detection of spores and …
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Is organic beekeeping possible? A multi-year study of pesticide contamination and landscape effects in the Northeast US
… strategy is organic management, but formal apiculture standards have not been adopted. Draft guidelines require up to a 6.4 km pesticide-free foraging zone for certified colonies, which is more land than is likely to be available surrounding most apiaries. Understanding how organic …
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Plant secondary metabolites enhance survival and pathogen tolerance in the European honey bee: a structure-function study
… to support the long-term sustainability of the apiculture industry.
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HONEY BEES, BIODIVERSITY AND CLIMATE CHANGE
… sustainable and resilient breeding strategies in apiculture. Maintaining biodiversity at both genetic and microbial levels is crucial not only for honey bee survival, but also for securing ecosystem services and agricultural productivity in the context of global environmental change.
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Estudo dos parâmetros biométricos de Melipona scutellaris Latreille, 1811 (HYMENOPTERA: APIDAE) em diferentes estações do ano no brejo paraibano
… hives. The study was carried out at the Apiculture and Meliponiculture Research Center at the Center of Agricultural Sciences of the Federal University of Paraíba from December 2013 to July 2014. Seventeen hives of Melipona scutellaris Latreille, nested in standard boxes, were evaluated …
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"An Insect View of its Plain": Nature and Insects in Thoreau, Dickinson, and Muir
… the flowers of California and idealizing apiculture as a form of agriculture in harmony with the needs of both nature and humanity.
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Field and laboratory evaluation of the interactions between pesticides and the gut microbiome in Honey Bees (Apis mellifera)
<p>Western honey bees (Apis mellifera) are important pollinators yet are threatened by a combination of factors such as poor nutrition, pathogens, parasites, and pesticide use. Bees encounter numerous pesticides while foraging (e.g. imidacloprid, a neonicotinoid insecticide) or in the hive colony …
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Plant-pollinator interaction networks in remnant and reconstructed Palouse Prairie in Eastern WA, USA
<p>Ecological restoration is often focused on re-establishing native plant communities, without considering the larger ecological community, specifically pollinators, despite their being critical to native forb reproduction. Further, ecological restoration has the potential to mitigate global …
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Bridging prairie restoration and regenerative agriculture with compost tea / the rocket incident: post-fire soil microbe recovery on the Eastern Washington University restoration site
<p>Inland Pacific Northwest prairie is an endangered ecosystem that has been reduced by conversion to agriculture. There is growing interest in the role of soil microorganisms in prairie ecosystems, which may be crucial for restoration of the plant community through interspecies interactions within …
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Development of a Precision Mite Management Program for the Control of the Ectoparasite Varroa destructor in Hives of Apis mellifera L.
… a source of concern for both beekeepers and the apiculture industry. One of the factors implicated in CCD is infestation by the ectoparasitic mite, Varroa destructor. Initial efforts to control the mite relied heavily on regular application of miticides without regard to actual mite infestation …
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Understanding the role and impact of introduced honey bees in a submontane indigenous forest ecosystem
New Zealand’s apiculture industry is the fastest growing in the world, expanding in agricultural landscapes, as well as in native ecosystems. While this has obvious benefits for economy and industry, the impacts on sustainability of native ecosystems are less easy to discern. Honey bees (Apis …
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BEES, HONEY AND TERRITORY: A COMPLEX NETWORK OF INTERACTIONS BETWEEN LANDSCAPE, BEEKEEPING AND HONEY QUALITY
… of the connections between biodiversity, apiculture and food quality. By emphasising the role of territory in shaping honey characteristics and pol-linator health, the thesis supports the development of sustainable management practices that consider interactions between environmental …
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Changes in Gene Expression and Viral Titer in Varroa Jacobsoni Mites After a Host Shift Asian to European Honey Bees
… of mites represent an enormous threat to apiculture. ^ For the first part of this project, we focused on investigating the differences in gene expression between populations of <em>V. jacobsoni</em> mites reproducing on <em>A. cerana</em> and those reproducing on <em>A. …
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Pollinator People: an ethnography of bees, bee advocates and possibilities for multispecies commoning in Toronto and London, ON
There is growing scientific evidence showing that many important pollinator species are in decline around the world. Bees are the most important pollinators in many parts of the world, and the combination of population declines in wild bees and widespread health problems among domesticated honey …