When high quality food source became depleted honey bee foragers visiting it did not immediately (during one hour) resume foraging at another low quality food source. They were visiting the low quality food source for a short time and only probed the food. Instead the foragers spent most of the time in hive An integrated look at decision-making in bees as they abandon a depleted food source,
Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
, Volume 66, p.275–286, (2012)
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Number of patrilines in a colony, resulting from number of the queen matings, does not affect phenoloxidase activity, encapsulation response, and fat body mass of workers Within-and across-colony effects of hyperpolyandry on immune function and body condition in honey bees (Apis mellifera),
Journal of Insect Physiology
, Volume 58, p.402–407, (2012)
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Body surface temperature and energy consumption of foragers increased with sucrose concentration in food collected by the foragers Assessing honeybee and wasp thermoregulation and energetics—New insights by combination of flow-through respirometry with infrared thermography,
Thermochimica Acta
, Volume 534, p.77-86, (2012)
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Flow cytometry can be used for assessment of honey bee sperm viability Flow cytometry as an estimation tool for honey bee sperm viability,
Theriogenology
, Volume 77, p.1642-1647, (2012)
[4]Flow cytometry evidence about sperm competition in honey bee (Apis mellifera),
Apidologie
, Volume 43, p.63-70, (2012)
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Honey bee silk proteins can be used to produce biomaterials Production, structure and in vitro degradation of electrospun honeybee silk nanofibers,
Acta Biomaterialia
, Volume 7, p.3789-3795, (2011)
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Pollen of transgenic corn did not affected development, survival and other traits of honey bee workers Field assessment of Bt cry1Ah corn pollen on the survival, development and behavior of Apis mellifera ligustica,
Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety
, Volume 79, p.232-237, (2012)
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A trap can be used to detect Aethina tumida larvae leaving honey bee nest Estimating reproductive success of Aethina tumida (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae) in honey bee colonies by trapping emigrating larvae,
Environmental Entomology
, Volume 41, Number 1, p.152–158, (2012)
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Longevity of winter bees was reduced by Varroa destructor and deformed wing virus but not by Nosema ceranae or acute bee paralysis virus Dead or alive: deformed wing virus and Varroa destructor reduce the life span of winter honeybees,
Applied and Environmental Microbiology
, Volume 78, Number 4, p.981–987, (2012)
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Workers preferred to visit food source with the same scent as food source advertised by successful forager even if they neither followed dance of the forager nor exchanged food with the forager. In most cases body contact with the successful forager was sufficient to influence scent preference of the workers Honeybee recruitment to scented food sources: correlations between in-hive social interactions and foraging decisions,
Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
, Volume 66, p.445-452, (2012)
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Honey bee drone on comb.