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Segmentation of the Subcuticular Fat Body in Apis Mellifera Females with Different Reproductive Potentials
- Earlier this year, U.S. beekeepers discovered near-total colony collapse, marking the worst bee die-off in history.
- Over the past 20 years, colony collapse disorder has worsened due to pesticides, climate stress, and parasitic mites, fueling the current crisis.
- Project Apis m. reports 70-100% colony losses, with inspections revealing hives containing honey and brood but missing adult bees.
- The collapse threatens California's multibillion-dollar almond industry and $15 billion worth of U.S. crops reliant on honey bee pollination.
- The California State Assembly passed a bill to create a bee health program, which advances to the Senate Agriculture Committee for mid-July review, aiming to support pollinator conservation.
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Segmentation of the subcuticular fat body in Apis mellifera females with different reproductive potentials
Evolution has created different castes of females in eusocial haplodiploids. The difference between them lies in their functions and vulnerability but above all in their reproductive potentials. Honeybee queens are highly fertile. On the other hand, the workers are facultatively sterile. However, rebel workers, i.e. workers that develop in a queenless colony, reproduce more often than normal workers. As a result, the fat body of these bees, whic…
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Honey bees in CA are dying. Can a bipartisan bill help save them?
Honeybees sit on a honeycomb with drone brood cut out of a beehive in Berlin on May 5, 2020. Photo by Wolfgang Kumm, Reuters Honey bees across the country are under attack from tiny, eight-legged parasitic mites. These mites burrow between the segments of the bees’ adult bodies or invade their larvae and infect them with viruses — deforming their wings and leaving them flightless. That’s not only problematic for the bees — whose entire colonies…
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