Browsing by Author "Rangel, Juliana"
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Walther, David R (2021-07-01)The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of mass media reports about honey bee decline on the practices of small-scale beekeepers. To accomplish this, the researcher conducted a three-component qualitative ...
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Rangel, Juliana; Giresi, Melissa; Pinto, Maria Alice; Baum, Kristen A.; Rubink, William L.; Coulson, Robert N.; Johnston, John Spencer (Ecology and Evolution, 2016)
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Fisher II, Adrian Leon (2017-07-21)Honey bees (Apis mellifera) have been experiencing an ongoing decline in population over the last half century despite their tremendous importance to agriculture. A variety of environmental pressures have been implicated ...
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Caples, Jonathan c (2023-04-19)Residential production of fresh vegetables in small urban and suburban locations may require innovative approaches to gardening, particularly in attracting sufficient and diverse pollinators for fruit set. This issue may ...
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Payne, Alexandria N (2015-09-27)The honey bee (Apis mellifera) is a eusocial insect where each individual hive contains a single, polyandrous queen that is responsible for laying the fertilized eggs that maintain a hive’s worker population. Virgin queens ...
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Williamson, Kendra May (2016-12-05)Motivated by increasing threats to pollinator health and the resultant impacts on pollination fees, this thesis models the market for pollination and honey production using the most complete economic model of the joint ...
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Rangel, Juliana; Strauss, Kim; Seedorf, Kaileah; Hjelmen, Carl E.; Johnston, J. Spencer (PLOS, 2015-04-16)Honey bees (Apis mellifera) exhibit age polyethism, whereby female workers assume increasingly complex colony tasks as they age. While changes in DNA methylation accompany age polyethism, other DNA modifications accompanying ...
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Montoya, John Edward (2018-08-23)Pollination is a key component to obtain proper yield and fruit set in numerous vegetable crops, with the honey bee, Apis mellifera, being their primary pollinator. Honey bee populations in the United States have ...
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Anderson, Jenise Ruby (2016-04-12)Honey bees (Apis mellifera) are arguably the most important beneficial insect in agricultural and horticultural ecosystems in the United States. Despite their importance, honey bee populations have been negatively impacted ...
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Payne, Alexandria Nicole (2022-04-25)Honey bee-infecting pathogens are a leading cause of worldwide bee decline. However, it is oftentimes only in conjunction with other stressors that pathogens reach titers that begin to negatively impact the health of bees ...
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Rangel, Juliana; Katalin Böröczky; Schal, Coby; Tarpy, David (PloS One, 2016)
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Lau, Pierre Wai Kit (2021-06-18)Inadequate nutrition, particularly in terms of pollen acquisition, has been attributed as one of the primary reasons for poor honey bee (Apis mellifera) colony health. This can be due to changes in the landscape and the ...
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Hawkings, Chloe Lauren (2018-12-04)The reproductive ground plan hypothesis suggests that the evolution of social insects has resulted in genes being co-opted from reproductive functions into functions that enable the division of labor. To test this hypothesis ...
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Walsh, Elizabeth M. (2019-11-22)Several factors are responsible for the health decline currently faced by managed honey bees (Apis mellifera) worldwide, including pests, pathogens, queen failure, pesticide contamination, habitat fragmentation and nutritional ...