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{"title":"Solitary bees in Pampean agroecosystems: a review about current status of knowledge","authors":"J. P. Torretta, H. J. Marrero, Rocío González-Vaquero, L. Garibaldi","doi":"10.1080/00218839.2023.2271292","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00218839.2023.2271292","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":15006,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Apicultural Research","volume":"341 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-11-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139239734","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Supplemental feeding coupled with different grafting techniques ensures better quality of queen honey bees","authors":"Tuan Henrique Smielevski de Souza, Claudio Gomes da Silva Júnior Pedroso, Daiani Rodrigues Moreira, Francieli Chagas, Adriana Aparecida Sinópolis Gigliolli, Wendy Guadalin de Oliveira, Alessandra Fernandes Gonçalves Benites, José Elton de Melo Nascimento, Diogo Francisco Rossoni, Vagner de Alencar Arnaut de Toledo","doi":"10.1080/00218839.2023.2277987","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00218839.2023.2277987","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":15006,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Apicultural Research","volume":"26 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-11-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139250892","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Testing the selectiveness of electric harps: a mitigation method for reducing Asian hornet impact at beehives","authors":"Cristian Pérez-Granados, Josep Maria Bas, Jordi Artola, Kilian Sampol, Emili Bassols, Narcís Vicens, Gerard Bota, Núria Roura-Pascual","doi":"10.1080/00218839.2023.2277988","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00218839.2023.2277988","url":null,"abstract":"AbstractThe Asian hornet (Vespa velutina) has rapidly become a source of stress for the beekeeping sector. Several methods have been developed to control its impact and spread, though some of these impose a high risk for native insects. Among these methods are electric harps, which are physical barriers that electrocute hornets pass through two wires powered by a current generator. Here we evaluated the selectiveness and risk of damage for local entomofauna of the electric harps in a study carried out over three years and four locations in Girona province (NE Catalonia, Spain). The electric harps showed a high selectiveness, with 90.5% of all insects trapped (3331 individuals) catalogued as Asian hornets, although this greatly varied over years and locations with values ranging from 29.9 to 94.3%. The risk of damage to electric harps for local entomofauna was very low in all surveyed areas and years. Native insects, excluding domestic honey bees, accounted for, as a mean, 1.2% of all insects trapped over the study period (range 0–2.4%). Our results suggest that electric harps might be a useful environmentally-friendly method aiming to reduce predation pressure of the Asian hornet at beehives.Keywords: ApicultureApis melliferabiological invasionselectric harpIASVespa velutina AcknowledgementsWe would like to thank the Solà-Morales family (Batet de la Serra) and Manel Simón (Falgons) for letting us install the hives on their properties. We are also grateful to two anonymous reviewers whose comments helped to improve the manuscript.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Data availability statementRaw data employed for data analyses and figures can be found at the following link: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.22116779.Additional informationFundingThis study was funded by Diputació de Girona and a grant for demonstration activities through the operation 01.02.01 of Technology Transfer of the Rural Development Program of Catalonia 2014–2020 (num. 56 30071 2018 P4), co-financed by the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD) of the European Commission and by the Department of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries and Food of the Generalitat de Catalunya. CPG acknowledges the support from Ministerio de Educación y Formación Profesional through the Beatriz Galindo Fellowship (Beatriz Galindo—Convocatoria 2020).","PeriodicalId":15006,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Apicultural Research","volume":"32 28","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134954467","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Can larval <i>Osmia</i> bees (Megachilidae) tolerate conifer resin volatiles?","authors":"James H. Cane","doi":"10.1080/00218839.2023.2273110","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00218839.2023.2273110","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":15006,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Apicultural Research","volume":"26 4","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136103665","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Aggression between invasive hymenopterans in Southern California: <i>scutellata</i> -hybrids <i>versus</i> German yellowjackets","authors":"Harmen P. Hendriksma, Kevin K. Hsiung, Heather C. Bell, James C. Nieh","doi":"10.1080/00218839.2023.2270870","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00218839.2023.2270870","url":null,"abstract":"AbstractHoney bee defensive behaviors are crucial for countering new predators such as invasive German yellowjackets (Vespula germanica). We provide the first data on the ability of scutellata-hybrids (Africanized bees) to defend their colonies against V. germanica wasps, as compared to European honey bees. The scutellata-hybrid colonies recruited twice as many defender bees in defense, and killed yellowjackets three times more often than managed European honey bee colonies. The defensive ability of such hybrids against new threats is intriguing and suggests that more research should be conducted into how defensive traits in the wide variety of honey bee subspecies may help against threats such as invasive wasps and hornets.Keywords: Aggressioninnate behaviorinvasive speciesdefenseApis melliferahybridization AcknowledgementsWe are grateful to the anonymous reviewers for their comments, which have improved our manuscript.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.","PeriodicalId":15006,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Apicultural Research","volume":"6 6","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136377162","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The association between the hypopharyngeal glands and the molecular mechanism which honey bees secrete royal jelly","authors":"Aqai Kalan Hassanyar, Jingnan Huang, Hongyi Nie, Zhiguo Li, Mubasher Hussain, Muhammad Rizwan, Songkun Su","doi":"10.1080/00218839.2023.2241611","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00218839.2023.2241611","url":null,"abstract":"AbstractRoyal jelly (RJ), a substance secreted by the hypopharyngeal and mandibular glands of nurse worker bees, is widely used in medical products, dietary supplements, health foods, and cosmetics, owing to its potential health benefits. An understanding of secretory glands, such as the hypopharyngeal glands (HGs), and their interactions are necessary for RJ secretion. The RJ production cycle should be expanded for more effective production, which requires additional experience and training. However, the association between RJ secretion and HGs levels remains unclear. To close this gap, we conducted this review to investigate the most recent advancements in HGs and RJ secretion in Apis mellifera. These include techniques for enhancing RJ production, the morphology of HGs, RJ biological and effectiveness in the treatment of diseases, a comparison of the secretion of RJ signaling pathways in honey bees, associated genes, the proteins of HGs, and elements that could affect the secretion of HGs and the mechanism of RJ secretion. In order to help bee products strategy, our review may be valuable for a better understanding of the association between HGs and RJ secretion.The heads of bees have secretory glands, especially hypopharyngeal glands (HGs), and mandibular glands located in front of the worker bees head, which secretes through the mouthparts with three main functions: Saliva to mix with food, larval feeding secretion, chemicals to communicate with other bees, and anesthetic chemicals. HGs: Contain royal jelly (RJ) protein in nurse bees; however, invertase in foragers. Often changes function with age, in the young bee’s lipids for RJ; old bees alarm pheromone 2-haptanone, and Isopentylic acetate.Keywords: Apis melliferahypopharyngeal glandsroyal jellyproductionsecretion AcknowledgmentsWe are grateful to Mr. Richard Weir for his constructive comments during the preparation.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.Additional informationFundingThis work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China [No. 31772684], the China Agriculture Research System of MOF, and MARA [No. CARS-44-KXJ4].","PeriodicalId":15006,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Apicultural Research","volume":"18 12","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135413084","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"An easy and fast method to estimate the number of frames with eggs, open brood, sealed brood, and bees in the brood chamber at the time of the inspection of a hive","authors":"Pablo Montesinos Arraiz","doi":"10.1080/00218839.2023.2262865","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00218839.2023.2262865","url":null,"abstract":"AbstractWhen a beekeeper is inspecting a hive, he wants to have an idea of how many frames are occupied by eggs, open brood, sealed brood, bees and honey, to be aware of the hive’s immediate or near-future needs. This method has to do with how to estimate those variables relating individually and numerically to the surfaces they occupy on both sides of each frame.Keywords: Beeopen broodsealed broodeggshiveinspection Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).","PeriodicalId":15006,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Apicultural Research","volume":"80 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135888867","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A national survey of managed honey bee colony losses in the USA: Results from the Bee Informed Partnership for 2020–21 and 2021–22","authors":"Dan Aurell, Selina Bruckner, Mikayla Wilson, Nathalie Steinhauer, Geoffrey R. Williams","doi":"10.1080/00218839.2023.2264601","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00218839.2023.2264601","url":null,"abstract":"In recent years, high losses of Western honey bee (Apis mellifera) colonies have been reported in the United States. Because honey bees are important to agricultural systems, it is critical to document when high losses occur and to explore patterns of loss among beekeeper subgroups. We used a voluntary, retrospective questionnaire to ask U.S. beekeepers (backyard, sideline, and commercial) about their colony loss during the 2020–21 and 2021–22 beekeeping seasons. We found that U.S. beekeepers lost 50.8% (38.0–63.1; 95% b.CI) of their colonies in 2020–21, the highest annual (year-long) loss reported to date. During the following year, 2021–22, beekeepers lost 39.0% (31.5–47.9; 95% b.CI) of their colonies, which is close to the average of previously published annual loss rates (40.9%). In contrast to previous years, backyard beekeepers (managing 50 or fewer colonies) had an elevated summer loss across both years and commercial beekeepers (managing >500 colonies) reported “weather” as an important cause of colony loss in the summer of 2021. Our results show that severe colony losses still occur periodically. From these data on colony loss rates, it does not appear that the health of honey bee colonies in the U.S. has improved since this survey began in 2008. We suggest that research should continue to focus on stressors that beekeepers most often perceive to be leading causes of loss—Varroa destructor mites, queen issues, and weather.","PeriodicalId":15006,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Apicultural Research","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136114176","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Urban beekeeping and sustainability","authors":"Francis Saucy","doi":"10.1080/00218839.2023.2190068","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00218839.2023.2190068","url":null,"abstract":"This paper discusses the weaknesses of an article addressing the sustainability of urban beekeeping in Switzerland. I show that some absolute figures cannot be reproduced using their supplementary material and that their simulations do not respect the internal constraints of their model. I also question the conceptual framework of their study and conclude that the results do not support the authors’ conclusions.","PeriodicalId":15006,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Apicultural Research","volume":"57 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136112755","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The effect of migratory beekeeping on Indian honey bee ( <i>Apis cerana indica</i> ) microbiota – a first report","authors":"K. Nishanthini, R. Kanagarajan","doi":"10.1080/00218839.2023.2264598","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00218839.2023.2264598","url":null,"abstract":"AbstractMigratory beekeeping is a widely extended practice aimed at increasing the yield of honey and pollination services. Microbial symbionts that inhabit the honey bee’s gut are essential to their host’s food digestion, immunity, and gut protection. Throughout the honey bee life cycle and at several migratory sites, the taxonomic composition of the gut microbiota changes. However, it is yet unknown how significant changes in migratory locations, such as altered floral supply, parasitism and pathogen infestation, affect the dynamics of the gut microbiota. The goal of this study was to describe the Indian honey bee (Apis cerana indica) gut microbiome at different migratory sites of Puducherry and Tamil Nadu. Our results found that the core bacterial composition of the microbiota was consistent over different migratory sites. Despite this stability, our comparisons of the microbiota of honey bees from the same colony show that there are differences in composition at different migratory sites. Likewise, there is variation in relative abundance between microbiomes of different migratory sites. The four most dominant phyla were Proteobacteria followed by Bacteroidota, Actinobacteriota and Firmicutes. Most of the isolates belonged to families of Xanthomonadaceae, Orbaceae, Weeksellaceae, Bifidobacteriaceae, Rhizobiaceae, Neisseriaceae, Lactobacillaceae, Dysgonomonadaceae, Clostridiaceae and Enterococcaceae. However, several commensal bacteria that proliferate in the hive environment including members of Lactobacillaceae (Lactobacillus kunkeei), Bifidobacteriaceae, Orbaceae and Neisseriaceae were also identified and considered as beneficial gut inhabitants and involved in the maintenance of a healthy microbiota. This is the first report on bee gut microbiota from Puducherry and Tamil Nadu geographically situated at the southeast coast of India.Keywords: Apis cerana indicamigratory beekeepinggut microbiotacommensal bacteriasocial immunity AcknowledgementsThe authors would like to thank TANSCHE, for the project entitled “Development of Sericulture and Apiculture – a viable remunerative approach for the sustainable livelihood of coastal farmers, rural youth and women” as well as the Qbiogen, Chennai for their next-generation sequencing expertise. The authors also wish to thank the farmers and Aurobindo farm for providing their field to conduct the experiments and help during the transport of the hives.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.Additional informationFundingThis work was supported by the Syngenta Private Ltd., Coimbatore [Grant No. 600-O-635].","PeriodicalId":15006,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Apicultural Research","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136113368","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}