Onset of oviposition by honey bee queens, mated either naturally or by various instrumental insemination methods, fits a lognormal distribution.

Jerzy Woyke, Zygmunt Jasinski, Jaroslaw Prabucki, Jerzy Wilde, Bozena Chuda-Mickiewicz, Maciej Siuda, Beata Madras-Majewska, Jerzy Samborski, Janusz Bratkowski, Agata Jojczyk

Pollination ecology of Melaleuca cajuputi, Nypa fruticans and their flower visitors.

Nguyen Quang Tan

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Defensive behavior and chemical deterrence against ants in the stingless bee genus Trigona (Apidae, Meliponini)

Lars Lehmberg, Kai Dworschak, Nico Blüthgen

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Comparison of the colony development of two native bumblebee species Bombus ignitus and Bombus lucorum as candidates for commercial pollination in China.

Jilian Li, Jie Wu, Wanzhi Cai, Wenjun Peng, Jiandong An, Jiaxing Huang.

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The effects of the shook swarm technique on honey bee (Apis mellifera L.) colony productivity and honey quality.

Ahmet Guler

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The content of essential and toxic elements in Croatian propolis samples and their tinctures.

Josipa Cvek, Marica Medic-Saric, Dubravka Vitali, Irena Vedrina-Dragojevic, Zdenko Smit and Sinisa Tomic.

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Morphology of the sting and its associated glands in four different honey bee species.

Jeganatha Ramya and Doddarangaiah Rajagopal.

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Nosema apis infection in honey bee (Apis mellifera) queens.

Thomas C. Webster, Etta M. Thacker, Kirk Pomper, Jeremiah Lowe, Greg Hunt

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Detection of sacbrood virus and the incidence of sacbrood disease in Apis mellifera colonies in the North-Western Himalayas.

Bachitter Singh Rana and Rakesh Rana.

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Chemical examination of Swertia densifolia leaf essential oil and its repellent activity towards Apis cerana indica F.

Dattatraya G Naik, Chitra Dandge, Hemalata Puntambekar and Pradnya Deshpande

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Protease and β-N-acetylglucosaminidase of honey bee chalkbrood pathogen Ascosphaera apis.

Teerayut Theantana and Panuwan Chantawannakul.

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The importance of plantain (Plantago spp.) as a supplementary pollen source in the diet of honey bees.

Bernardo Sabugosa-Madeira, Helena Ribeiro, Mário Cunha and Ilda Abreu.

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A non-invasive and non-destructive method for observing in-hive behaviour of the Australian stingless bee, Austroplebeia australis.

Megan Halcroft, Robert Spooner-Hart and Peter Neumann

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Colony losses: a double blind trial on the influence of supplementary protein nutrition and preventative treatment with fumagillin against Nosema ceranae.

Antonio Gómez Pajuelo, Cristina Torres, and Fco. Jose Orantes Bermejo.

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Brazilian honey samples evaluated by physical-chemical and carbon isotope ratio analysis.

Gilberto J. Padovan, Luciana P. Rodrigues, David De Jong, Rosa M.D. Fávaro, Cristina E. Ykosawa, Júlio S. Marchini.

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Nectar secretion in basil (Ocimum basilicum L.) grown in different soil conditions.

Marina Macukanovic-Jocic, Zora Dajic Stevanovic, Snezana Jaric, Lola Durdevic.

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