A prebiotic that also exists in honey was added in the trials. Bees fed the prebiotics have slightly higher pathogen counts but lower mortalities.

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Bees with hygienic behavior remove the diseased or dead brood of closed cells. But, the expression of hygienic behavior varies greatly over the year.

We measured the proportion of foragers carrying mites while entering and leaving hives to determine its relationship to the growth of varroa populations in those hives.

The association between the deformed wing virus and the parasitic mite Varroa destructor has been identified as a major cause of worldwide honeybee colony losses.n in mite-infested bees.

Vespa velutina nigrithorax, an Asian bee-hawking hornet, has been unintentionally introduced in southwestern France before 2004 and is currently widely spreading across the country. Its arrival in northern Spain was reported in 2010.

Alien species are usually characterized by their overall flexibility especially when facing disturbance (LEE & GELEMBIUK, 2008). Social hymenopteran are such highly flexible species due to eusociality: they exhibit behavioural plasticity due to their organization in castes; they also have high reproductive rates, demonstrate efficient competitive and dispersal abilities and are opportunistic foragers
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By the President of the Republic of Greece at the inauguration of Notre Dame Cathedral on December 7, 2024, coinciding with the opening of the Beekeeping Conference at the 15th Honey Festival.

It would probably be easier to enumerate the cultures which do not chronicle some kind of use of bees as weapons since this motif is so pervasive.

Comparisons were made between changes in median lifespan and experimental design variables, population, water use, pollen use, pollen substitute use.