Does nonreproductive swarming adapt to pathogens?

Diao, Qingyun; Hou, Chunsheng

doi:10.1371/journal.ppat.1006742

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“…Therefore, honey bees can naturally reduce their risk of exposure to pathogens and pesticides through swarming by avoiding an infectious habitat and weeding out infected individuals. Swarming is also beneficial for finding new hive locations, nectar sources, and creating genetic diversity by enhancing the productivity and health of the colony (Diao and Hou, 2018).…”

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Correlation of Royal Jelly Composition with Swarming Tendency in Honey Bees (Apis mellifera): A Review

Chander

Marwaha

2021

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Honey bees are eusocial insects which respond to warm weather, abundant food source by increasing their population through swarming to ensure the survival of the colony. To maintain a superior colony a queen must have a nutrient-rich diet and high egg production. Royal jelly is a high-quality food which has numerous beneficial properties required for proper growth, development, survival of the queen. Factors like congestion, lack of adequate queen pheromone, abnormal queen pheromone, pathogenic infections, exposure to pesticides influence the queen quality which further promotes non-reproductive swarming behaviour. Worker bees analyse the queen condition to prepare for supersedure or emergency queen rearing. This review paper highlights the influence of royal jelly composition on the queen quality, the impact of queen quality on swarming tendency, correlation between royal jelly composition and swarming tendency.

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Correlation of Royal Jelly Composition with Swarming Tendency in Honey Bees (Apis mellifera): A Review

Chander

Marwaha

2021

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“…The "artificial swarming" division system is one of the most profitable products for beekeepers.They used these fission nuclei to increase the number of colonies in their apiary or to sell them to others to build new apiaries (Diao and Hou, 2018;Hatjina et al, 2014;Landa, 1986;Lewis and Schneider, 2008;Winston, 1980;Woyciechowski and Kuszewska, 2012). The production of packaged bees and nuclei requires a lot of experience and knowledge of the beekeeper to identify some key points related to the success of the division process.…”

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Genetic Diversity and Biological Activities of Nuclei from Swarming and Dividing of Honey Bee Apis mellifera L. Colonies

Kandel,

Masry,

Hafez

et al. 2024

Journal of Plant Protection and Pathology

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Honey bee swarming is a crucial behavior for the population reproduction of honey bee colonies in early spring and autumn. It is well known that the honey bee reproductive swarming always shows a genetic diversity among the swarmed individuals of specific genes. This type of genetic diversity always occurs for the individuals that naturally swarmed. Twelve honey bee nuclei were used; six from natural and the other six from artificial swarming. For studying the biological activity parameters including; honey, pollen, and brood. Moreover, the hygienic behavior test, queen weight, queen rearing, and ovarioles number were recorded for two years. Moreover, two different molecular techniques were used such as specific PCR and RAPD PCR. The molecular part helps in understanding the genetic diversity developed between swarm's individuals and those artificial ones. Concerning the biological activities; the results illustrated that the swarm nuclei had a highly significant difference compared with the artificial one in the first year, whenever, non-significant differences were observed between the two examined swarms in the second year. Furthermore, molecular differences were obtained assuming these differences back to the corresponding swarming related genes which mostly control some of the defense genes of hygienic and grooming behavior. These results revealed the presence of a tide-relationship between the bees' immune system and their genetic profiles. Thus, recommend leaving the colonies to prepare for a swarming to enhance their production ability and hygienic behavior after distributing the hunting hives in the apiaries to avoid missing colonies.

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“…Despite these findings, Varroa resistance of honey bees remains poorly understood but is likely the result of multiple factors and not only based on social immunity. Whereas behavioral adaptations received substantial scientific interest ( 35 , 36 ), much less work has been conducted to test for the possible involvement of the innate immune system in the recognition and defense against mites. Comparative studies of Varroa -tolerant versus susceptible honey bee genotypes therefore offer the opportunity to test for the possible involvement of the innate immune system in responses to Varroa infections.…”

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Larval Exposure to Parasitic Varroa destructor Mites Triggers Specific Immune Responses in Different Honey Bee Castes and Species

Yu¹,

Wubie²,

Feng³

et al. 2022

Molecular & Cellular Proteomics

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Does nonreproductive swarming adapt to pathogens?

Cited by 6 publications

References 41 publications

Correlation of Royal Jelly Composition with Swarming Tendency in Honey Bees (Apis mellifera): A Review

Correlation of Royal Jelly Composition with Swarming Tendency in Honey Bees (Apis mellifera): A Review

Genetic Diversity and Biological Activities of Nuclei from Swarming and Dividing of Honey Bee Apis mellifera L. Colonies

Larval Exposure to Parasitic Varroa destructor Mites Triggers Specific Immune Responses in Different Honey Bee Castes and Species

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