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BEES, HONEY AND TERRITORY: A COMPLEX NETWORK OF INTERACTIONS BETWEEN LANDSCAPE, BEEKEEPING AND HONEY QUALITY
… this backdrop, the thesis entitled “Bees, Honey and Territory: A Complex Network of Interactions between Landscape, Beekeeping and Honey Quality”, aims to analyse the relationships between bees, floral resources, land-scape structure, and honey quality. The research takes an integrated …
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HONEY BEES, BIODIVERSITY AND CLIMATE CHANGE
Honey bees (Apis mellifera) are vital pollinators for both natural ecosystems and agricultural productivity. However, their populations are threatened by factors such as habitat loss, pathogens, climate change, and the genetic risks associated with selective breeding. This thesis explores the …
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Crops, pesticides, and honey bee disease
Honey bee colonies are an essential factor in American agriculture and of overall ecosystem health. The winter of 2006 marked an observation of large scale losses of managed honey bee colonies (vanEngelsdorp et al, 2009). Since then, there has been an average loss of 30% of colonies in beekeeping …
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Chemical Manipulation of Honey Bee Behavior
The loss of managed honey bee colonies, resulting from their unintentional exposure to pesticides, is a topic of concern for the agricultural and apicultural industry. Current methods for reducing pesticide exposure to bees involve the application of pesticides before crop bloom or in the evening …
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Cloning and Analysis of a Honey Bee (Apis Mellifera) Period Gene Ortholog and Honey Bee Division of Labor
1Winston, M. L. (1987) The Biology of the Honey Bee. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA. 2Moore, D., J. E. Angel, I. M. Cheeseman, S. E. Fahrbach, and G. E. Robinson. (1998) Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol. 43: 147--160. 3Hall, J. C. (1995). TINS 18: 230--240.
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Investigating the Anti-inflammatory Activity of Honey
Honey has various bioactivities with health-benefiting properties. It has been registered for use in wound dressings but before it can be registered with regulatory authorities for sale with claims for therapeutic actions the components responsible for these bioactivities must be identified to …
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Engineering the gut microbiome of honey bees
Honey bees are critically important commercial pollinators and model systems for insect physiology and behavior. Honey bees are also suffering dramatic declines worldwide due to many factors, including agricultural practices, parasites, and pesticide use. These bees house a simple, conserved gut …
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NEONICOTINOID TOXICITY IN REPRODUCTIVE HONEY BEE CASTES
… proper evaluation of the reproductively active honey bee drones and queens. Accordingly, the overarching goal of this thesis was to incorporate the evaluation of honey bee reproductive castes in toxicologic assays through the use of “gold standard” research techniques routinely used in …
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Honey Bee Communication: The Dance-Language Controversy
<p>In recent years, the evidence suggesting that honey bees communicate with a "dance language" has been strongly attacked on both theoretical and experimental grounds. The controversy is reviewed and the main issues are isolated and discussed. The fundamental obstacle to the resolution of this …
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Honey as a Source of Natural Antioxidants
… diseases. Previous research demonstrated that honeys from various floral sources exhibit significant antioxidant activity, rendering honey effective as a food antioxidant. The objective of the research presented in this dissertation was to extend the knowledge of the protective antioxidant …
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Physicochemical and flavor characterization of Tupelo honey
… region in the panhandle of Florida. The honey produced from the nectar of these trees is regarded as a premium honey because its non-granulating tendencies and limited supply due to the small growing region and short bloom time of the Tupelo trees. Unfortunately there are few studies of …
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Neurogenomic architecture of honey bee social behavior
… and social organization in the western honey bee (Apis mellifera). This dissertation consists of original research on the neurogenomic architecture of social behavior in honey bees. Honey bees form highly complex societies and exhibit rich behavioral repertoires generated by a tiny brain …
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Molecular bases of scouting behavior in honey bees
Division of labor among honey bee foragers involves “scouts” and “recruits.” Scouts seek new food sources or nest sites independently and recruit other bees in the hive to the locations of good food or nest sites instead of exploiting the resources themselves. In this dissertation, I hypothesize …
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Physicochemical and aroma characterization of Arbutus pavarii honey
Arbutus pavarii honey is a unique rare honey characterized by its bitter taste. It is produced by Apis mellifera bees from the nectar of the wild strawberry, Arbutus pavarii pamp., tree. Arbutus pavarii tree is an endemic, rare plant, native to the green mountain area located in the eastern part of …
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Aloe and honey : tales from town and country
The Black South African literary oeuvre has as its dominant background township life. There has been a considerable neglect of village or rural setting. Even the proliferation of writing that has been regarded as depicting genuine African experience has fallen short of remedying this malady. There …
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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
… in conveniently collected, pooled, extracted honey to determine AFB risk at a yard 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 …
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