hygienic behavior
Infestation and Reproduction of Varroa destructor Anderson and Trueman and Hygienic Behavior in Colonies of Apis mellifera L. (Africanized Honeybee) with Queens of Different Genetic Origins
... hygiene behavior traits, varroa invasion rate in worker pupae, total reproduction, effective reproduction and varroa infestation in adult honeybees according to the origin of the queen and the evaluation period as ...
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Comparison of Hygienic Behavior of Exotic Honey Bee Apis mellifera L. and Indigenous Honey Bee Apis cerana of Pakistan
... instinct behavior of removing infested, diseased or dead broods, clean their cells and take these diseased or dead broods out of their hives, which is called hygienic behavior of honey bees ...
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Safety assessment of sugar dusting treatments by analysis of hygienic behavior in honey bee colonies
... out hygienic behavior are, on average, 15–17 days old, and contribute 18% to the population of a colony at any given ...performing hygienic tasks at some point in their adult life (Wilson-Rich et ...
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Apitoxin harvest affects population development but not the hygienic behavior of African-derived honey bees
... and hygienic behavior of African-derived Apis mellifera ...The hygienic behavior of the colonies was not ...the hygienic behavior of the ...
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The ectoparasite mite Varroa destructor Anderson and Trueman in southeastern Brazil apiaries: effects of the hygienic behavior of Africanized honey bees on infestation rates
... In Brazil, the ectoparasitic mite of bees Varroa destructor Anderson and Trueman (Acari: Varroidae) remains at low levels of infestation causing no major damage. However, with the introduction and possible dominance of a ...
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Handling of fresh vegetables : knowledge, hygienic behavior of vendors, public health in Maputo markets, Mozambique
... After the City Council approval for the present study in Maputo markets, surveys were applied to vendors in five markets: Benfica and Zimpeto, corresponding to Kamubukwana municipal dist[r] ...
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Is the number of antennal plate organs (sensilla placodea) greater in hygienic than in non-hygienic Africanized honey bees?
... The pin-killed brood assay, developed by Newton and Ostasiewski Jr. (1986) and modi- fied by Gramacho and Gonçalves (1994), was used to measure hygienic behavior. This assay consists of piercing the sealed ...
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ECOLOGY, BEHAVIOR AND BIONOMICS
... The oviposition of C. capitata and other Tephritidae in hosts inadequate for larval development are not an uncommon behavior. Krainacker et al. (1987), in a study on biological parameters of C. capitata kept in ...
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ECOLOGY, BEHAVIOR AND BIONOMICS
... flavopicta maintained during the adult stage on Brachiaria ruziziensis produced more eggs and lived longer than those maintained on Axonopus marginatus (a native grass widely distribute[r] ...
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ECOLOGY, BEHAVIOR AND BIONOMICS
... oviposition behavior (Krainacker et ...oviposition behavior is that the females would choose species of plants that could maximize larval survival and growth (Thompson & Pellmyr ...
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ECOLOGY, BEHAVIOR AND BIONOMICS
... From the moment that the plant is reached, its physical structure – texture, pubescence, turgescence, growth mode – may play an important role on the selection of food (Mulkern 1967). Mechanical receptors allow textural ...
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ECOLOGY, BEHAVIOR AND BIONOMICS
... In most terrestrial habitats, social insects have higher biomass and energy consumption than vertebrates. Among the eusocial insects, ants are dominant, widely distributed throughout the world, excepting the polar ...
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Behavior Analysis and Learning
... of behavior has tended to obscure the variables which are immediately available for a scientific ...explain behavior as other subjects are explained in ...to behavior are often subtle and complex, but ...
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ECOLOGY, BEHAVIOR AND BIONOMICS
... En los bordes con vegetación natural y durante el período previo al desarrollo del cultivo de soja (Noviembre y Diciembre) se recolectaron sobre las plantas 219 arañas pertenecientes a 2[r] ...
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ECOLOGY, BEHAVIOR AND BIONOMICS
... costly behavior that demands the ingestion of en- ergy-rich resources, especially ...This behavior leads to a longer permanence at the flowers (Gilbert ...
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ECOLOGY, BEHAVIOR AND BIONOMICS
... transported to the Laboratory of Insect Nutrition and Feeding Behavior, where the present study was carried out. At the time of hatching, caterpillars were divided into two groups according to the type (age) of ...
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ECOLOGY, BEHAVIOR AND BIONOMICS
... ABSTRACT - The search for and ingestion of food are essential to all animals, which spend most of their lives looking for nutritional sources, more than other activities such as mating, intra-specific disputes or ...
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ECOLOGY, BEHAVIOR AND BIONOMICS
... with traps baited with synthetic attractant Z7Z11-16Ald, failed in field tests in China, Italy, Spain, USA, Turkey, and Brazil (reviewed in Tongyuan et al. 1989, Jacas & Pena 2002, Sant’Ana 2003). Intriguingly, Du ...
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ECOLOGY, BEHAVIOR AND BIONOMICS
... nutritional characteristics, probably because of edaphic and environmental factors (Barp et al. The aim of this study is to verify 1) the effect of nitrogen on the morphological and nutr[r] ...
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ECOLOGY, BEHAVIOR AND BIONOMICS
... torquata , captured in several different locations in different geographical regions of Brazil, during January-March 2001 (A) and 2002 (B) and the respective temperatures (annual mean te[r] ...
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