Honey bee news

Correlation of Varroa destructor infestation with hygienic behavior of honeybees.

Link to the publication: http://www.uco.es/organiza/servicios/publica/az/php/img/web/26_13_45_Varroa.pdf

Castagnino G.L.B., Pinto L.F.B., Carneiro M.R.L., others (2016) Correlation of Varroa destructor infestation with hygienic behavior of honeybees. Archivos de Zootecnia 65:549–554.

Volume and Density of Microglomeruli in the Honey Bee Mushroom Bodies Do Not Predict Performance on a Foraging Task

Link to the publication: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/dneu.22492/full

Van Nest B.N., Wagner A.E., Marrs G.S., Fahrbach S.E. (2017) Volume and Density of Microglomeruli in the Honey Bee Mushroom Bodies Do Not Predict Performance on a Foraging Task. Developmental Neurobiology.

Mapping species distributions with social media geo-tagged images: Case studies of bees and flowering plants in Australia

Link to the publication: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1574954116302321

ElQadi M.M., Dorin A., Dyer A., Burd M., Bukovac Z. (2017) Mapping species distributions with social media geo-tagged images: Case studies of bees and flowering plants in Australia. Ecological Informatics.

The exposure of honey bees (Apis mellifera; Hymenoptera: Apidae) to pesticides: Room for improvement in research

Link to the publication: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969717303030

Benuszak J., Laurent M., Chauzat M.-P. (2017) The exposure of honey bees (Apis mellifera; Hymenoptera: Apidae) to pesticides: Room for improvement in research. Science of The Total Environment.

Draft genome of the honey bee ectoparasitic mite, Tropilaelaps mercedesae, is shaped by the parasitic life history

Link to the publication: https://academic.oup.com/gigascience/article/3038223/Draft-genome-of-the-honey-bee-ectoparasitic-mite

Dong X., Armstrong S.D., Xia D., Makepeace B.L., Darby A.C., Kadowaki T. (2017) Draft genome of the honey bee ectoparasitic mite, Tropilaelaps mercedesae, is shaped by the parasitic life history. GigaScience.

Spatial and taxonomic patterns of honey bee foraging: A choice test between urban and agricultural landscapes

Link to the publication: https://academic.oup.com/jue/article/doi/10.1093/jue/juw008/2999746/Spatial-and-taxonomic-patterns-of-honey-bee

Sponsler D.B., Matcham E.G., Lin C.-H., Lanterman J.L., Johnson R.M. (2017) Spatial and taxonomic patterns of honey bee foraging: A choice test between urban and agricultural landscapes. Journal of Urban Ecology 3.

Assessment of the toxicity of pesticides on honey bee drone fertility using laboratory and semi-field approaches: A case study of fipronil

Link to the publication: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/etc.3773/full

Kairo G., Poquet Y., Haji H., Tchamitchian S., Cousin M., Bonnet M., Pelissier M., Kretzschmar A., Belzunces L.P., Brunet J.-L. (2017) Assessment of the toxicity of pesticides on honey bee drone fertility using laboratory and semi-field approaches: A case study of fipronil. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry.

Seasonal cycle of inbreeding and recombination of the parasitic mite Varroa destructor in honeybee colonies and its implications for the selection of acaricide resistance

Link to the publication: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1567134817300539

Beaurepaire A.L., Krieger K.J., Moritz R.F.A. (2017) Seasonal cycle of inbreeding and recombination of the parasitic mite Varroa destructor in honeybee colonies and its implications for the selection of acaricide resistance. Infection, Genetics and Evolution 50:49–54.

Using DNA metabarcoding to investigate honey bee foraging reveals limited flower use despite high floral availability

Link to the publication: http://www.nature.com/articles/srep42838

de Vere N., Jones L.E., Gilmore T., Moscrop J., Lowe A., Smith D., Hegarty M.J., Creer S., Ford C.R. (2017) Using DNA metabarcoding to investigate honey bee foraging reveals limited flower use despite high floral availability. Scientific Reports 7:42838.

Regional differences in the preferred e-vector orientation of honeybee ocellar photoreceptors

Link to the publication: http://jeb.biologists.org/content/early/2017/02/16/jeb.156109

Ogawa Y., Ribi W., Zeil J., Hemmi J.M. (2017) Regional differences in the preferred e-vector orientation of honeybee ocellar photoreceptors. Journal of Experimental Biology.