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Good beekeeping practices for sustainable apiculture
These guidelines aim to provide useful information and suggestions for a sustainable management of bees around the world, which can then be applied to project development and implementation.
Pollinators In Winter: What Bees, Bugs And Butterflies Do During
Do you ever wonder what happens to your favorite pollinators, like butterflies and bees, during winter? Once the temperature turns cold and the snow begins to fly, where do pollinating insects go?
Bees in the Curriculum
Everybody seems to care about bees these days but how much do we really know and understand?
Collective mechanical adaptation of honeybee swarms
Honeybee Apis mellifera swarms form large congested tree-hanging clusters made solely of bees attached to each other1.
Multispecies host-parasite evolution is common, but how parasites evolve after speciating remains poorly understood.
Shared evolutionary history and physiology may propel species along similar evolutionary trajectories whereas pursuing different strategies can reduce competition.
Thrice out of Asia and the adaptive radiation of the western honey bee
The origin of the western honey bee Apis mellifera has been intensely debated. Addressing this knowledge gap is essential for understanding the evolution and genetics of one of the world’s most important pollinators.
The waggle dance
The waggle dance is a unique form of communication of honeybees, which is used to convey the distance and direction of a food source.
Where did the honey bee come from?
It has, apparently, been a long-standing and hotly contested debate in science: from where did our beloved honey bee come?
