Western honey bees ( Apis mellifera ) are not native to North America, and their impact on wild bees is not fully understood. Through interviews with beekeepers and biodiversity surveys in 24 of Chicago's community gardens (9 with beehives), we explored questions about urban apiculturists' ...
This honey bee was introduced into Brazil in 1956 in an effort to improve the beekeeping industry in Latin America. Captive bees escaped in 1957 when queen excluders were removed from some of the hives. They spread south to Argentina and north through South America, reaching Panama in 1982. ...
Honey bees are extreme generalist foragers (觅食者), leading to exploitative competition -— that is , where one species uses up a resource, not leaving enough to go around."(大量的蜂群增加了 本地传粉者之间的竞争,给已经减少的野生物种带来了更大的压力。蜜蜂是极端的多面手觅 食者,这导致了剥削...
ant stings to dogs do not develop pustules characteristic of those on humans, and there have been no reports of anaphylaxis in dogs (Rakich et al., 1993). Some dogs, when stung on thefaceby bees or wasps, develop enormous swelling of theheadthat may persist for a few days to a week....
Honey bees, which are not native to North America, were introduced by European colonists about 400 years ago. Today, honey bees produce about 147 million pounds of honey, with a production value of approximately $287 million annually. However, honey bees...
Though not a native pollen bee in North America, the honey bee, Apis mellifera, is an important pollinator of commercial crops.
I could not find an official term for wild native bees but the termnative beesfits quite well. A native bee is any bee that is native to your location, but it does not include the escaped feral honey bees. In North America we love our native bumble bees and some are close to extincti...
bees and can even promote pathogen exchange between various insect communities [25,26,27,28]. Since honey bee pathogens are spread worldwide, they have become a threat to a variety of native bee species in numerous countries, including those of North America [29,30]. Moreover, the ...
Honey bees (Apis mellifera) are economically important insect pollinators whose widespread loss is increasingly affecting Asia, Europe and North America1,2,3,4,5. Between April of 2019 and April of 2020 the United States reported a 43% colony loss6. Several factors can contribute to honey bee...
T Inoue - 《Natural History of Social Wasps & Bees in Equatorial Sumatra》 被引量: 33发表: 1990年 Pheromones affecting ovary activation and ovariole loss in the Asian honey bee Apis cerana The Asian hive bee Apis cerana has similar queen mandibular pheromones (QMP) to the Western honey bee ...