Africanized bees
Viability of probiotic bacteria in bioyogurt with the addition of honey from Jataí and Africanized bees
... Abstract – The objective of this work was to evaluate the viability of probiotic bacteria in bioyogurt with the addition of honey from Africanized and Jataí bees, in different concentrations. To prepare the ...
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Infestation and distribution of the mite Varroa destructor in colonies of africanized bees
... infesting Africanized bees in Brazil for almost 30 ...on Africanized bees was found to be low, causing no apparent harm to apiculture and requiring no use of chemical products to combat the ...
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Variation in honey yield per hive of Africanized bees depending on the introducing time of young queens
... of Africanized bees depending on the introducing time of young queens” declared, for all due purposes, the project that gave rise to the present data of the same has not been submitted for evaluation to the ...
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Bee Flora and Use of Resources by Africanized Bees
... Beekeeping is affected by adverse climatic conditions and availability of floral resources. This study aimed to survey and characterize the flora in São João do Piauí, a semi-arid region in Piauí, Brazil, and to identify ...
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ARTIGO_Generalized estimating equations to evaluate the dependence of lifetime in confined africanized bees
... of bees confined in a ...of bees fed on different diets, generalized estimating equations applied to the logit model were used to assess the viability of incorporating correlation structures that related ...
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Floral Origin and Physical and Chemical Characteristics of Honey from Africanized Bees in Apiaries of Ubiratã and Nova Aurora, State of Paraná
... In order to obtain the honey samples, three hives were randomly marked in each apiary. All hives were located near or inside the forest fragments. In each hive, we placed every month a frame with new bee-wax foundation ...
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Variation morphogeometrics of Africanized honey bees (Apis mellifera) in Brazil
... The wide geographical distribution and environmental heterogeneity in the American continent and the differences among species of the Africanized bees may help to better understand the micro-evolutionary ...
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A comparison of the hygienic response of Africanized and European (Apis mellifera carnica) honey bees to Varroa-infested brood in tropical Brazil
... Carniolan bees demonstrate impressively that this trait is not sufficient to prevent damage and collapse of the honey bee ...of Africanized bees to their well-known tolerance to ...Brazilian ...
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Enhanced production of parthenocarpic cucumbers pollinated with stingless bees and Africanized honey bees in greenhouses
... of Africanized bees (Apis mellifera), and the Brazilian native stingless bees, Jataí (Tetragonisca angustula) and Iraí (Nannotrigona testaceicornis) on fruit ...Jataí bees were not observed ...
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MORPHOMETRICS AND ADAPTATIVES ASPECTS IN AFRICANIZED HONEYBEES (Apis mellifera)
... To leave of those results, the index W was calculated (Table 5). In that table, we can observe that the colonies 6, 7, and 8 were the ones that they presented smaller values of W and, being like this, they presented ...
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Lesions caused by Africanized honeybee stings in three cattle in Brazil
... We report three cases of stings by Africanized bees in cattle in the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Erythema, subcutaneous edema, necrosis accompanied by skin detachment, and subsequent skin regeneration ...
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Longevity and reproduction period of africanized queen bees in the Northeast region of Brazil
... of Africanized queen bees under the climatic conditions of the Zona da Mata region in the state of Pernambuco, Northeast of ...queen bees naturally fertilized were collected every 15 days from ...
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Lesions caused by Africanized honeybee stings in three cattle in Brazil
... by Africanized bees, contribute data to the design of the clinicopathological status when surviving numerous stings and to establish the differential diagnosis for cases of photosensitization sequelae in ...
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Diapause in Stingless Bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae)
... honey- bees may somehow synchronize their biological rhythms and inform nestmates about external environmental conditions through their body movements (Bloch et ...stingless bees, even though chemical ...
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Genetic parameters for five traits in Africanized honeybees using Bayesian inference
... The heritability (0.16) for HP was lower than the value reported by Bar-Cohen et al. (1978) for Italian bees (0.54), but higher than the low value found by Praagh et al. (2006)for Carnolian honeybees (0.03). While ...
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Varroa destructor mite in Africanized honeybee colonies Apis mellifera
... Pernal et al. (2005) observed that the mites prefer nursing honeybees, which tend to stay in brood combs. The increased rates of invasion and infestation of colonies under honey production may be due to the greater ...
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Interactions between carpenter bees and orchid bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae) in flowers of Bertholletia excelsa Bonpl. (Lecythidaceae)
... eusocial bees can be aggressive, thus permitting them to have a greater access to the resource exploited (Johnson and Hubbell 1975; Nagamitsu and Inoue 1997; Nieh et ...
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Assessing Sperm Quality in Stingless Bees
... Recent advances in the use of flow cytometry to assess sperm traits in social insects allowed significant improvements, decreasing processing times and increasing accuracy (Cornault & Aron, 2008; Paynter et al., ...
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An Improved Bees Algorithm for Real Parameter Optimization
... of bees conducting local search and since the imitation of the best characteristics in nature can lead to efficient algorithms, this paper proposes a new local search algorithm that very closely mimics the actual ...
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effect of Africanized honeybee (Apis mellifera L.) venom on rat aorta
... Background: Apis mellifera stings are a problem for public health worldwide, particularly in Latin America due to the aggressiveness of its Africanized honeybees. Massive poisoning by A. mellifera venom (AmV) ...
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