Nutrition and health in honey bees

R Brodschneider, K Crailsheim - Apidologie, 2010 - apidologie.org
Adequate nutrition supports the development of healthy honey bee colonies. We give an
overview of the nutritional demands of honey bee workers at three levels:(1) colony nutrition …

Antimicrobial activity of bee-collected pollen and beebread: State of the art and future perspectives

NA Didaras, K Karatasou, TG Dimitriou, GD Amoutzias… - Antibiotics, 2020 - mdpi.com
Bee-collected pollen (BCP) is a well-known functional food. Honey bees process the
collected pollen and store it in the hive, inside the comb cells. The processed pollen is called …

Swarm intelligence and cyber-physical systems: concepts, challenges and future trends

M Schranz, GA Di Caro, T Schmickl… - Swarm and Evolutionary …, 2021 - Elsevier
Swarm Intelligence (SI) is a popular multi-agent framework that has been originally inspired
by swarm behaviors observed in natural systems, such as ant and bee colonies. In a system …

Sub-lethal effects of dietary neonicotinoid insecticide exposure on honey bee queen fecundity and colony development

J Wu-Smart, M Spivak - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
Many factors can negatively affect honey bee (Apis mellifera L.) health including the
pervasive use of systemic neonicotinoid insecticides. Through direct consumption of …

Standard methods for maintaining adult Apis mellifera in cages under in vitro laboratory conditions

GR Williams, C Alaux, C Costa, T Csaki… - Journal of Apicultural …, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
Adult honey bees are maintained in vitro in laboratory cages for a variety of purposes. For
example, researchers may wish to perform experiments on honey bees caged individually or …

Bee food: the chemistry and nutritional value of nectar, pollen and mixtures of the two

SW Nicolson - African Zoology, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
Bees are herbivorous insects, consuming nectar and pollen throughout their life cycles. This
paper is a brief review of the chemistry of these two floral resources and the implications for …

A quantitative model of honey bee colony population dynamics

DS Khoury, MR Myerscough, AB Barron - PloS one, 2011 - journals.plos.org
Since 2006 the rate of honey bee colony failure has increased significantly. As an aid to
testing hypotheses for the causes of colony failure we have developed a compartment …

Modelling food and population dynamics in honey bee colonies

DS Khoury, AB Barron, MR Myerscough - PloS one, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Honey bees (Apis mellifera) are increasingly in demand as pollinators for various key
agricultural food crops, but globally honey bee populations are in decline, and honey bee …

Seasonal variation of pollen collected by honey bees (Apis mellifera) in developed areas across four regions in the United States

P Lau, V Bryant, JD Ellis, ZY Huang, J Sullivan… - Plos one, 2019 - journals.plos.org
For honey bees (Apis mellifera), colony maintenance and growth are highly dependent on
worker foragers obtaining sufficient resources from flowering plants year round. Despite the …

The carry‐over effects of pollen shortage decrease the survival of honeybee colonies in farmlands

F Requier, JF Odoux, M Henry… - Journal of applied …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Many studies have reported honeybee colony losses in human‐dominated landscapes.
While bee floral food resources have been drastically reduced over past decades in human …