The case of a necrotizing soft-tissue infection after a honeybee sting is reported. To the best of our knowledge, it is the first documented case of necrotizing fasciitis caused by invasive group A Streptococcus from a bee sting. A 56-year-old man was stung by a bee in the left upper ...
Honey bees may suffer from various health disorders which may results in decrease in their population. Some common diseases which are found in honey bees are varroa mite, bacterial infection, wax moth, fungal disease and acarine mites. Varroa mite is an external parasite that lives and feed on...
Rates of resin foraging increase after colony infection with the fungal agent that causes chalkbrood in honey bee larvae (Ascosphaera apis), and propolis in the nest environment reduces chalkbrood infection [4]. This is the first evidence of social-medication in insects, where adults, without ...
59,61. This discrepancy in viral prevalence is also reflected in our results, where DWV is always more prevalent in honey bees at our different sampling sites compared to the other viruses, namely the AKI-virus complex and SBPV. Experimental infection assays have shown that...
Honey can also be classified as honeybee (Apis mellifera) and stingless bee (meliponini) honey (da Silva et al., 2013). The honeybee is bigger in size and it sting while stingless honey bee does not sting and is smaller in size (Jalil, Kasmuri, & Hadi, 2017). Honeybee honey is ...
When the acidic nature of the vagina gets out of balance, Candida albicans thrives in such an environment, causing the yeast infection. Now, many women already know that taking Lactobacillus acidophilus helps, but many do not realize that honey may be quite helpful too. ...
Although this raises interesting questions regarding honey bee navigation and memory, it is not a problem for beekeepers, as any barrier placed around an apiary will be permanent. The effect of the barriers on raising bee flight height to a mean of c. 2.2–2.5 m was somewhat weak and ...
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Zero indicates that the stinging insect is too small or otherwise unable to pierce the human skin; 2 is the central value, as represented by the pain of a honey bee sting; and 4, the top of the scale, is typically described as causing immediate, excruciating, totally debilitating pain ...
An example of a stingless bee species is Melipona scutellaris 123 1884 (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Meliponini), an indigenous species occurring in the North-eastern part of Brazil and considered to be one of the first species to be domesticated in the Americas (Kerr 1996; Silva et al. 2013). In...