Download or read book Pollen Collection and Behavioral Characteristics of the Honeybee A p i s m e l l i f e r a Linne at High Altitudes written by Spencer M. Riedel and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Behavior Of The Honey Bee In Pollen Collection written by D. B. Casteel and published by Namaskar Books. This book was released on with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Behavior of the Honey Bee in Pollen Collection the Original Classic Edition written by D. B. Casteel and published by Tebbo. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finally available, a high quality book of the original classic edition of The Behavior of the Honey Bee in Pollen Collection. It was previously published by other bona fide publishers, and is now, after many years, back in print. This is a new and freshly published edition of this culturally important work by D. B. Casteel, which is now, at last, again available to you. Get the PDF and EPUB NOW as well. Included in your purchase you have The Behavior of the Honey Bee in Pollen Collection in EPUB AND PDF format to read on any tablet, eReader, desktop, laptop or smartphone simultaneous - Get it NOW. Enjoy this classic work today. These selected paragraphs distill the contents and give you a quick look inside The Behavior of the Honey Bee in Pollen Collection: Look inside the book: 9.-Inner surface of the right hind leg of a worker bee which bears a complete load of pollen, a, Scratches in the pollen mass caused by the pressure of the long projecting hairs of the basket upon the pollen mass as it has been pushed up from below; b, groove in the pollen mass made by the strokes of the auricle as the mass projects outward and backward from the basket. ...In an endeavor to solve this problem the observer must of necessity consider a number of factors, among which may be noted (1) the location upon the body of the collecting bee of 'moist' and of comparatively 'dry' pollen, (2) the movements concerned in the pollen-gathering and pollen-transferring processes, (3) the relative moisture of those parts which handle pollen, (4) the chemical differences between the natural pollen of the flower and that of the corbiculae and of the cells of the hive, and (5) the observer must endeavor to distinguish between essential phenomena and those which are merely incidental or accidental. ...The sticky fluid which causes pollen grains to cohere is found upon all of the legs, in the region of their brushes, although the pollen combs and auricles of the hind legs are likely to show it in greatest abundance, since nearly all of the pollen within each basket has 26 passed over the auricle, has been pressed upward and squeezed between the auricle and the end of the tibia and the pollen mass above, and by this compression has lost some of its fluid, which runs down over the auricle and onto the combs of the planta
Download or read book Investigations of the Honey Bee Pollen hoarding Syndrome written by Jennifer Mariko Tsuruda and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Behavior of the Honey Bee in Pollen Collecting written by United States. Department of Agriculture and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Behavior of the Honey Bee in Pollen Collecting Classic Reprint written by Dana Brackenridge Casteel and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-05 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Behavior of the Honey Bee in Pollen Collecting Although, as above noted, some unbranched hairs are located upon the body of the bee, they occur in greatest numbers upon the more distal segments of the appendages. They are quite diverse in form, some being extremely long and slender, such as those which curve over the pollen baskets, others being stout and stifl', as those which form the collecting brushes and the pecten spines. The mouth parts Of the bee are also essential to the proper col lection of pollen. T h e mandibles are used to scrape over the anthers Of flowers, and considerable pollen adheres to them and is later removed. The same is true of the maxillae and tongue. From the mouth comes the fluid by which the pollen grains are moistened. The legs Of the worker bee are especially adapted for pollen gath ering. Each leg bears a collecting brush, composed Of stiff, un branched hairs set closely together. These brushes are located upon the first or most proximal tarsal segment of the legs, known techni cally as the palmae of the forelegs and as the plantae of the middle and hind pair. The brush of the foreleg is elongated and of Slight width (fig. That of the middle leg broad and flat (fig. While the brush upon the planta of the hind leg is the broadest of all, and is also the most highly Specialized. In addition to these well-marked brushes, the distal ends Of the tibiae of the fore and middle legs bear many stiff hairs, which function as pollen collectors, and the distal tarsal joints Of all legs bear similar structures. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Behavior of the Honey Bee in Pollen Collection written by Casteel D B and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2016-06-23 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Download or read book Genetic and Behavior Analyses of Pollen Hoarding in the Honey Bee Apis Mellifera L written by Richard Leo Hellmich and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pollen Preferences and Factors Which Influence Pollen Collection by the Honey Bee Apis Mellifera L written by Ronald Wayne Intermill and published by Hassell Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the fascinating world of honey bees and their collection of pollen. Using scientific research, the author delves into the various factors that influence their behavior and choices, shedding light on the complex interactions between bees and their environment. Anyone interested in the natural world and the intricate workings of ecosystems will find this book a compelling read. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book The Effects of Pollen Stress During Larval Development on the Nursing Behavior of Adult Honey Bees Apis Mellifera written by Corena Loeb and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The adverse effects of developmental nutritional stress on adult function are well-documented in vertebrates, but poorly studied in invertebrates. Our study examined the effects of larval pollen-stress in one of the world’s most important pollinators, Apis mellifera, the European honey bee. As honey bee workers age, they pass through important jobs in their colony in a process called temporal polyethism. Fundamental to colony health and population numbers is one of the first jobs a worker will do, nursing, or the feeding and general caring for of young larvae. To understand how larvae reared in a pollen-deprived environment affected nursing behavior, we divided natural colonies into three subunits to rear larvae under conditions of either abundant or limited pollen supply. We then observed focal workers for nursing behavior and hypopharyngeal gland growth (an important gland that nurses use to secrete “brood food”) during approximately the first three weeks of their adult life. Pollen-stressed workers had hypopharyngeal glands that were smaller than their unstressed cohorts’ in the middle of the typical period of nursing and followed a significantly different timeline of growth. Pollen-stressed workers also spent less mean time inspecting larvae in brood cells, but this difference was not statistically significant and interpretation would likely benefit from a larger sample size. As widespread pollinators in both commercial agriculture and natural settings, honey bees provide an invaluable ecological and economical service to our global society. In recent years, honey bee populations have been declining in part due to environmental stressors that are a result of food stress in colonies. This study provides insight into how a crucial honey bee behavior may be affected by such stress using honey bees reared under and living in a natural social setting.
Download or read book The Behavior of the Honey Bee in Pollen Collection written by Dana Casteel and published by . This book was released on 2016-06-28 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While working upon the problem of wax-scale manipulation during the summer of 1911 the writer became convinced that the so-called wax shears or pinchers of the worker honey bee have nothing whatever to do with the extraction of the wax scales from their pockets, but rather that they are organs used in loading the pollen from the pollen combs of the hind legs into the corbiculæ or pollen baskets (Cast eel, 1912). Further observations made at that time disclosed the exact method by which the hind legs are instrumental in the pollen-loading process and also the way in which the middle legs aid the hind legs in patting down the pollen masses. During the summer of 1912 additional information was secured, more particularly that relating to the manner in which pollen is collected upon the body and legs of the bee, how it is transferred to the hind legs, how it is moistened, and finally the method by which it is stored in the hive for future use. In the present paper a complete account will be given of the history of the pollen from the time it leaves the flower until it rests within the cells of the hive. The points of more particular interest in the description of pollen manipulation refer to (1) the movements concerned in gathering the pollen from the flowers upon the body and legs, (2) the method by which the baskets of the hind legs receive the loads which they carry to the hive, and (3) the manner in which the bee moistens pollen and renders it sufficiently cohesive for packing and transportation. CONTENTS: Introduction The structures concerned in the manipulation of pollen The pollen supply General statement of the pollen-collecting process Action of the forelegs and mouthparts Action of the middle legs Action of the hind legs Additional details of the basket-loading process Pollen moistening Storing pollen in the hive Summary Bibliography
Download or read book The Behavior of the Honey Bee in Pollen Collecting written by D> Casteel and published by . This book was released on 2018-10-31 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Behavior of the Honey Bee in Pollen Collecting
Download or read book The Lives of Bees written by Thomas D. Seeley and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-28 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seeley, a world authority on honey bees, sheds light on why wild honey bees are still thriving while those living in managed colonies are in crisis. Drawing on the latest science as well as insights from his own pioneering fieldwork, he describes in extraordinary detail how honey bees live in nature and shows how this differs significantly from their lives under the management of beekeepers. Seeley presents an entirely new approach to beekeeping--Darwinian Beekeeping--which enables honey bees to use the toolkit of survival skills their species has acquired over the past thirty million years, and to evolve solutions to the new challenges they face today. He shows beekeepers how to use the principles of natural selection to guide their practices, and he offers a new vision of how beekeeping can better align with the natural habits of honey bees.
Download or read book Status of Pollinators in North America written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2007-05-13 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pollinators-insects, birds, bats, and other animals that carry pollen from the male to the female parts of flowers for plant reproduction-are an essential part of natural and agricultural ecosystems throughout North America. For example, most fruit, vegetable, and seed crops and some crops that provide fiber, drugs, and fuel depend on animals for pollination. This report provides evidence for the decline of some pollinator species in North America, including America's most important managed pollinator, the honey bee, as well as some butterflies, bats, and hummingbirds. For most managed and wild pollinator species, however, population trends have not been assessed because populations have not been monitored over time. In addition, for wild species with demonstrated declines, it is often difficult to determine the causes or consequences of their decline. This report outlines priorities for research and monitoring that are needed to improve information on the status of pollinators and establishes a framework for conservation and restoration of pollinator species and communities.
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Download or read book Honeybees of Asia written by H. Randall Hepburn and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-01-04 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A multi-authored work on the basic biology of Asian honeybees, written by expert specialists in the field, this book highlights phylogeny, classification, mitochondrial and nuclear DNA, biogeography, genetics, physiology, pheromones, nesting, self-assembly processes, swarming, migration and absconding, reproduction, ecology, foraging and flight, dance languages, pollination, diseases/pests, colony defensiveness and natural enemies, honeybee mites, and interspecific interactions. Comprehensively covering the widely dispersed literature published in European as well as Asian-language journals and books, "Honeybees of Asia" provides an essential foundation for future research.
Download or read book The Wisdom of the Hive written by Thomas D Seeley and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes and illustrates the results of more than fifteen years of elegant experimental studies conducted by the author to investigate how a colony of bees is organized to gather its resources. The results of his research--including studies of the shaking signal, tremble dance, and waggle dance--offer the clearest, most detailed picture available of how a highly integrated animal society works.
