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Materias / palabras clave: honey bees, apiculture, beekeeping, bee biology, bee nutrition and health, pollination and bee flora; Science | Agriculture: Agriculture (General)

Royal jelly is a unique product of worker bees, namely the secret of their pharyngeal and maxillary glands. It is the main source of nutrients and biologically active substances for larvae and queens. Royal jelly include...

Aim of study: To evaluate the potential bactericidal activity of natural molecules against Paenibacillus larvae. Moreover, we investigated if molecules that exhibit antimicrobial activity were able to inhibit the proteol...

ABSTRACT The use of bee-pollen as a nutritional supplement or as a production-enhancing agent in livestock has increased the demand for this product worldwide. Despite the current importance of this niche within the apic...

Honey is one of the oldest sweetening foods and has economic importance, making this product attractive to adulteration with cheap sugars. This can cause a critical problem in the honey industry and a possible health ris...

Pollination is critical for food production and has the particularity of linking natural ecosystems with agricultural production systems. Recently, losses of bumblebee species have been reported worldwide. In this study,...

Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.) crops are affected by a diversity of pests. Among these pests, the whitefly Trialeurodes vaporariorum (Westwood) (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae) and the leaf miner, Tuta absoluta (Meyrick) (Lepi...

En este artículo BEEBOOK presentamos un conjunto de métodos establecidos para cuantificar el comportamiento de la abeja de la miel. Empezamos con métodos generales para la preparación de las abejas para ensayos de co...

Linking Bees, Biodiversity, and Breadwinners highlights the complex and essential relationship between Bees and the survival of rural livelihoods. Although the role of bees in advancing sustainable development objectives...

The European Union has expanded a number of times throughout its history by way of the accession of new member countries to the Union. Former USSR republic of Georgia and the EU have maintained relations since 1996. The ...

In the context of widespread honey bee colony collapse, the search for highly effective tools for honey bee conservation is a pressing issue. The aim of the research was to develop a scheme for the application of formic ...

Honey possesses unique properties, characterized by its high sugar concentration and the synergistic interaction among nectar, pollen, bees, and yeasts. These features render it an exceptional substrate for exploring mic...

El glifosato es el producto herbicida más utilizado en la actualidad. Si bien su uso es mayormente agrícola, una proporción puede ingresar al interior de las colmenas de Apis mellifera, lo que implica un riesgo toxico...

Produced by a stingless bee (Tetragonula biroi) from Sulawesi Island, propolis is an active compound that requires further studies to determine its herbal-based medicinal applications. In addition, propolis is well known...

This chapter explores the relationship between cultural (e.g., utilitarian), psychological (e.g., prominence and ease of observation), and organoleptic factors (e.g., taste perceptions) related to the use of stingless be...

Abstract This contribution provides a brief description of the harvest of stingless bee honey by Creole people in the Chaco forest from the informal “meleo” which is the collection of bee colony products mostly ho...