Removing Unwanted Honey Bees from Occupied StructuresKeith Hawkins
In Apis mellifera, hygienic behavior involves recognition and removal of sick, damaged or dead brood from capped cells. We investigated whether bees react in the same way to grouped versus isolated damaged capped brood cells. Three colonies of wild-type Africanized honey bees and three colonies of...
2000. Africanized honey bees (Apis mellifera L.) are more efficient at removing worker brood artificially infested with the parasitic mite Varroa jacobsoni than are Italian bees or Italian/Africanized hybrids. Genetics Molec. Biol. 23: 89-92....
Africanized honey bees are efficient at detecting, uncapping and removing dead broodMichelle MoraisTiago FrancoyRogerio PereiraLionel Goncalves
(2005) Evaluation of the time of uncapping and removing dead brood from cells by hygienic and non-hygienic honey bees, Genet. Mol. Res. 4, 105–114.PALACIO, M.; FLORES, J.; FIGINI, E.; RUFFINENGO, S.; ESCANDE, A.; BEDASCARRASBURE, E.; RODRIGUEZ, E. Y GONCALVES, L. 2005. ...