Honey bee biology has been profoundly shaped by social evolution, making the colony the predominant unit of selection. Even though the inclusive fitness of individuals diverges from colony success in some instances, the colony is the fundamental unit of selection.Kin selectioncreates unique selection ...
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davyana is an important winter bee plant in South Africa and its relatively dilute nectar (20% w/w) contrasts with a sugar concentration almost twice as high in the crop contents of bees captured at flowers (after foraging for at least 20 s) and on return to the hive8. The doubling ...
4. If the queen bee dies, workers will create a new queen by selecting a young larva (the newly hatched baby insects) and feeding it a special food called “royal jelly“. This enables the larva to develop into a fertile queen. ADVERTISEMENT 5. Honey bees are fab flyers. They fly at...
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Land use, habitat, and forage quality have emerged as critical factors influencing the health, productivity, and survival of honey bee colonies. However, characterization of the mechanistic relationship between differential land-use conditions and ultimate outcomes for honey bee colonies has been elusive...
Because the honey bee queen typically mates with 15–20 males, the workers from a honey bee hive belong to as many different patrilines, allowing for the search of the genetic determinism of cognitive abilities. Using microsatellite analysis, we show that a genetic determinism underlies the trade...
Blood from cockroaches stressed by having their mouthparts sealed or by being dehydrated by contact with silica aerogel, administered into the opened wounds of freshly excised honey bee abdomens, produced neuromuscular reaction that was monitored and recorded as characteristic myograms. When blood ...
Taste perception allows discriminating edible from non-edible items and is crucial for survival. In the honey bee, the gustatory sense has remained largely unexplored, as tastants have been traditionally used as reinforcements rather than as stimuli to b
www.nature.com/scientificreports OPEN Magnetic Sensing through the Abdomen of the Honey bee received: 15 June 2015 accepted: 11 March 2016 Published: 23 March 2016 Chao-Hung Liang1, Cheng-Long Chuang2, Joe-Air Jiang2 & En-Cheng Yang1,3 Honey bees have the ability to detect the...