Download or read book The Production and Intra nest Transmission of Honey Bee Apis Mellifera L Queen Mandibular Gland Pheromone written by Kenneth Naumann and published by National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada. This book was released on 1992 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Worker Responses To and Queen Production Of Honeybee apis Mellifera L Queen Mandibular Pheromone written by Tanya Pankiw and published by National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada. This book was released on 1995 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Role of Honey Bee Apis Mellifera L Queen Mandibular Gland Pheromone in Pollination Enhancement and Colony Management microform written by Heather Higo and published by National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada. This book was released on 1994 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Polyandrous Queen Honey Bee Biology and Apiculture written by Lovleen Marwaha and published by Bentham Science Publishers. This book was released on 2023-01-16 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The queen honey bee is known to mate with multiple drones, and can produce over a million offspring in its lifetime. Its presence is vital to the growth and survival of a beehive. This reference book is a detailed guide to queen honey bees. The book starts by providing deep insights into the fascinating biologyof the queen honey bees, their morphometric features, developmental synchronicity, genetics, hormones, pheromones, colonial organization and swarming. Further, the book describes artificial queen rearing techniques that facilitate healthy bee colony growth and increase apiculture productivity. The book equips readers with all the knowledge they need to know about queen bee development, their role in the colony and improving the health of their colony. Key Features- 14 reader-friendly chapters that comprehensively present information about queen honey bees- Comprehensive coverage about queen bee biology, including their physical morphology, genetics, proteomics, development and behavior (including worker and drone interactions)- Information about the role of queen bees in colonial organization and life-cycle events- Practical information that helps to improve bee colony health for research and apiculture (disease mechanisms and control, artificial breeding) The book is an essential primary reference on queen honey bees for biology and entomology students, academicians and researchers at all educational levels. Apiculturists, bee keeping enthusiasts, and general readers interested in honey bees can also benefit from the breadth of information presented.
Download or read book The Role of Honey Bee Apis Mellifera L Queen Mandibular Gland Pheromone in Pollination Enhancement and Colony Management written by Heather Higo and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Effect of Pollen Diet and Honey Bee apis Mellifera L Primer Pheromones on Worker Bee Food Producing Glands written by Lizette Alice Peters and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis examines three factors that may influence the change in protein content and size of the brood food glands in honey bees. Effects on the mandibular gland, involved in the production of brood food and in royal jelly, have not been examined in relation to primer pheromones while effects on the hypopharyngeal glands, also involved in the production of brood food, have not been examined in relation to queen mandibular pheromone. This thesis provides preliminary insight into how these pheromones affect the extractable protein content of brood food glands. The first study in this thesis assessed the effects of brood pheromone (BP), queen mandibular pheromone (QMP), and pollen presence on the protein content of hypopharyngeal and mandibular glands of the honey bee. In this study, newly emerged bees were caged for 12 days in one of eight treatments: Queenless state: 1) control (no pollen + no pheromone), 2) pollen, 3) BP, 4) BP + pollen; Queenright state: 1) QMP, 2) QMP + pollen, 3) BP + QMP, 4) BP + QMP + pollen. This study indicated that regardless of pheromone treatment, the most influential factor on gland protein content and size was pollen. The second experiment examined effects of varying pollen dilution on hypopharyngeal and mandibular gland protein content, bee mass, and lipid content of the honey bee. In this experiment, newly emerged bees were caged for 7 days and fed one of five treatments: pollen, 1:1 pollen: cellulose (vol:vol), 1:2 pollen: cellulose (vol:vol); 1:3 pollen: cellulose (vol:vol), and cellulose. This study indicated that bees on the pollen diet were significantly greater than all other diluted diets in measurements of hypopharyngeal gland protein content, lipid content, and mass with significantly less consumption. However, mandibular gland protein content of bees on the pollen diet was significantly greater only from pure cellulose.
Download or read book Isolation and Identification of New Components of the Honey Bee Apis Mellifera L Queen Retinue Pheromone written by Christopher Ian Keeling and published by National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada. This book was released on 2003 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pheromones of Social Bees written by John Brand Free and published by Comstock Publishing. This book was released on 1987 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Determination of Components of the Honey Bee Queen Apis Mellifera L Mandibular Gland Pheromone as Fluorescent Pyrenyl Ester Derivatives microform written by Nicole Marie Laurencelle and published by National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada. This book was released on 1995 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pheromone Communication In Social Insects written by Robert K Vander Meer and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2019-06-18 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together for the first time prominent researchers in social insect pheromone communication, including nestmate recognition, this book looks at ants, wasps, bees, and termites, highlighting areas of convergence and divergence among these groups, and identifying areas that need further investigation. Presenting broad synthetic overviews as well as species-specific studies, the volume will be useful to natural scientists, ecologists, and those interested in pest management, as well as to anyone interested in the fascinating chemically mediated behavioral interactions of social insects.
Download or read book Pheromone Communication In Social Insects written by Robert K. Vander Meer and published by Westview Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Characteristically, social insects rely heavily on behavioral mechanisms and associated pheromonal chemistry to maintain their sociality and to successfully function as a colony unit. Bringing together for the first time prominent researchers in social insect pheromone communication, including nestmate recognition, this book looks at ants, wasps, bees, and termites, highlighting areas of convergence and divergence among these groups, and identifying areas that need further investigation. Presenting broad synthetic overviews as well as species-specific studies, the volume will be useful to natural scientists, ecologists, and those interested in pest management, as well as to anyone interested in the fascinating chemically mediated behavioral interactions of social insects.
Download or read book Regulation of Worker Reproduction in the Honey Bee Apis Mellifera L written by Shelley Hoover and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproductive division of labour is a defining characteristic of eusocial insects. In honey bees, there is normally a single, highly fecund queen, responsible for producing all the brood in the colony. Workers are functionally sterile, developing their latent ovaries only upon queen loss. Workers cannot mate, and are only capable of laying unfertilised, male eggs. I investigated the effects of various chemical, genetic, and nutritional factors on the ovary development of honey bee workers. I demonstrate that queen mandibular pheromone inhibits worker ovary development in caged queenless workers to the same degree as queen extracts. Four newly identified queen pheromone components did not inhibit ovary development alone, nor did they increase the efficacy of the other components. Anarchistic bees are a line developed by recurrent selection in which workers commonly reproduce in queenright colonies. There was no difference between the ovary development of anarchistic or wild type workers in colonies headed by anarchistic or wild type queens, therefore queen type is not responsible for the phenomenon. Anarchistic workers perceive queen pheromones, and anarchistic queens produce an attractive blend, as I found no differences in the retinue response of either worker type to either queen type. There also was no difference in response to queen pheromones at a high dose. At lower doses, however, wild type workers were more inhibited by queen pheromones than were anarchistic workers. Both adult and larval diet influenced adult ovary development, but workers fed high quality diets as adults had higher levels of ovary development than those fed low quality diets as adults regardless of larval diet quality. Nutrition is likely responsible for the seasonal variation observed in ovary development. Disruptive selection resulted in lines of bees with high or low levels of ovary development. High ovary development colonies collected far more pollen than their low line counterparts. Cross-fostering workers from the high line into the low line and vice versa demonstrated that there is an effect of both genotype and rearing environment. These results demonstrate the complex interactions between nutrition, pheromones, genetics, and environment that determine worker reproductive potential.
Download or read book The Dark Side of the Hive written by Robin Moritz and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-20 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Honey bees have been described as exceptionally clever, well-organized, mutualistic, collaborative, busy, efficient--in short a perfect society. While the colony is indeed a marvel of harmonious, efficient organization, it also has a considerable dark side. Authors Robin Moritz and Robin Crewe write about the life history of the honey bee, Apis mellifera, highlighting conflict rather than harmony, failure rather than success, from the perspective of the individual worker in the colony. When one looks carefully, the honey bee colony is far from being perfect. As with any complex social system, honeybee societies are prone to error, robbery, cheating, and social parasitism. Nevertheless, the hive gets by remarkably well in spite of many seemingly odd biological features. The perfection that is perceived to exist in the honeybee's social organization is the function of a focus on the colony as a whole rather than exploring the idiosyncrasies of its individual members. The Dark Side of the Hive thus focuses on the role of the individual rather than that of the collective. Moritz and Crewe dissect the various careers that individual male and female honey bees can take and their role in colony organization. Competition between individuals using both physical and chemical force drives colonial organization. This book deals with individual mistakes, maladaptations and evolutionary dead-ends that are also part of the bees' life. The story told about these dark sides of the colony spans the full range of biological disciplines ranging from genomics to systems biology.
Download or read book Pheromones of Social Bees written by J.B. Free and published by Springer. This book was released on 1987-02-28 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: this is a worthy and timely summary of our present knowledge and provides valuable leads to further research. Quarterly Review of Biology
Download or read book Swarm Behavioral Studies with Emphasis on Queen Introduction in Honey Bees Apis Mellifera L written by John T. Ambrose and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hormonal Regulation of Division of Labor in Honey Bee Apis Mellifera L Colonies written by Gene Ezia Robinson and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Production Recognition and Treatment of Queen Cells in the Honey Bee Apis Mellifera L Colony written by Richard Douglas Fell and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
