Energy benefits from evaporating nectar during foraging and flight. Average energy (J) needed to transport the reduced crop load back to the hive (blue), energy saved due to reducing body mass by evaporation of crop contents (black) and energy needed to evaporate the excess water in the hive...
We obtained data on (1) foraging performance by calculating distance by decoding waggle dances, (2) hive foraging rate by counting forager departure rate, (3) forage quality by assessing sugar content of nectar from returning foragers, and (4) forager success by calculating the proportion of ...
I'm writing this as an encouragement to any who might be considering doing this. I'm by no means an expert and I have many hard lessons to learn but I'd like to share the process of getting a purchased box bees into a new hive. It was very straight forward. Everyone has an opinio...
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When the bees return, they regurgitate it into the mouth of another worker bee in the hive. They then continue the process of breaking down the water content in the nectar and the enzymes. The reason that enzymes are essential is that they help to create the longevity of honey. This allow...
Since the loss of honeybees in hives could have a greater impact on colony health than those of their foraging bees, it is imperative to know beehives' pesticide exposure via oral ingestion of contaminated in-hive matrices. Here, a 4-year monitoring survey of 64 pesticide residues in pollen,...
The introduction of parasitic honey bee mites, the tracheal mite, Acarapis woodi (Rennie) in 1984 and the Varroa mite, Varroa jacobsoni, in 1987, has drama... M T,Frazier,Finley,... - 《Journal of Economic Entomology》 被引量: 6发表: 2000年 Comparitive Benefits of Beekeeping Enterprise ...
Through video analysis, the researchers identified multiple honey bee behaviors inside the hive, including hive remodeling, surface cleaning, self-grooming, brood care, pollen and nectar storage, and even cannibalism! Credit: Diego Perez-Lopez, PLOS,CC-BY 4.0 ...
Patterns in within-day hive weight data from two independent datasets in Arizona and California were modeled using piecewise regression, and analyzed with respect to honey bee colony behavior and landscape effects. The regression analysis yielded information on the start and finish of a colony's dail...
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain a readily producible artificial hive for honey bee short in time required for a bee to collect honey, repeatedly usable, excellent in heat insulating properties, free from burr to injure bees, excellent in heat resistance and rigidity/mechanical strength, slight ...