Asia is home to at least nine honeybee species, including the introduced Apis mellifera. In
addition to A. mellifera and Apis cerana being widely employed for commercial beekeeping …

Background and Research Aims Globally, concerns over a decline in insect pollinator
abundance have been raised. Although bees were noted to be key pollinating agents for …

Ranging from dwarfs to giants, the species of honeybees show remarkable differences in
body size that have placed evolutionary constrains on the size of sensory organs and the …

“The story of the Cape bee is a kind of coloured flower in most of the books on the biology of
honeybees. It is astonishing and amusing and not quite believable. It remains a curious story …

Diversity of yeasts in association with bees and their food sources has been explored during
the last decade. In Thailand, there has been no study of yeast identification in honey and …

Abstract Pollination studies in East Asia have been developing rapidly in recent decades.
East Asia may provide important information on many aspects of plant-pollinator interactions …

This study was conducted to investigate the relationship between species of honey bees
and properties of their produced honey. Honey samples were obtained during sidr (Ziziphus …

The dwarf honey bee (Apis florea Fabricius) is one of the most important pollinator species
of tropical and arid regions of Iran and other countries. Considering the importance of dwarf …

The geographical distributions of the dwarf honeybees, Apis andreniformis and Apis florea,
are defined and mapped. The analysis is based primarily on data in the literature for both …

Honey bees forage for pollen and nectar. Sugar is an important stimulus for foraging and a
major source of energy for honey bees. Any differential response of bees to different …