n° 9/2019 Dicembre
Seduti in poltrona
I fuchi del vicino | Luca Bosco
1 - Heather R. Mattila, Daniela Rios, Victoria E. Walker-Sperling, Guus Roeselers, Irene L. G. Newton, Characterization of the Active Microbiotas Associated with Honey Bees Reveals Healthier and Broader Communities when Colonies are Genetically Diverse, Plos One, 12 Marzo 2012, Volume 7, Issue 3, e32962.
Beelife
Stop Ue al thiacloprid. Una nuova opportunità per superare i neonicotinoidi?
[1] BeeLife, 2018, Nenoicotinoids Banned to all Open-Air Uses in the EU, recovered from https://www.bee-life.eu/post/2018/04/27/Nenoicotinoids-Banned-to-all-Open-Air-Uses-in-the-EU
[2] BeeLife, 2015, Pesticide cocktails found in puddles on Austrian farmland endanger bees, recovered from https://www.bee-life.eu/post/2015/06/23/Pesticide-cocktails-found-in-puddles-on-Austrian-farmland-endanger-bees
[3] EFSA (European Food Safety Authority), Abdourahime, H, et al., 2019. Conclusion on the peer review of the pesticide risk assessment of the active substance thiacloprid. EFSA Journal 2019;17(2):5595, 32 pp. https://doi.org/10.2903/j.efsa.2019.5595
[4] EFSA, 2013, EFSA Guidance Document on the risk assessment of plant protection products on bees (Apis mellifera, Bombus spp.and solitary bees). EFSA Journal, 11(7), 3295
[5] EFSA, 2015, Conclusion on the peer review of the pesticide risk assessment of the active substance sulfoxaflor, recovered from http://efsa.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.2903/j.efsa.2014.3692
L'articolo è tratto da https://www.bee-life.eu/post/una-nuova-opportunit%C3%A0-per-superare-i-neonicotinoidi-dallo-stop-ue-al-thiacloprid
Recensione
Il libro che mancava: Ereditarietà nell’ape e nelle colonie di api di Bernard Sauvager | Chiara Concari
https://anercea.com/
http://www.lapisonline.it/libri/view/productdetails/virtuemart_product_id/72/virtuemart_category_id/3.html
Notizie in breve
a cura di | Chiara Concari
www.apitrentine.it
https://www.bangkokpost.com/business/1780029/govt-rejects-us-opposition-to-farm-chemicals-ban?fbclid=IwAR0BNXrbuusTkO
https://www.festambiente.it/premiati-ieri-a-festambiente-gli-ambasciatori-del-territorio-portatori-sani-di-un-futuro-green-capace-di-guardare-anche-al-passato/?_sf_
https://www.kqed.org/news/11777723/blind-beekeeper-relies-on-the-sound-of-the-swarm-to-keep-her-hives-happy?fbclid=Iw
n° 8/2019 Novembre
Biologia
Ingegneria nell’alveare: microclima, efficienza energetica, varroa | Umberto Vesco
Kraus, B., e H. H. W. Velthuis. 1997. «High Humidity in the Honey Bee (Apis Mellifera L.) Brood Nest Limits Reproduction of the Parasitic Mite Varroa Jacobsoni Oud.» Naturwissenschaften 84 (5): 217-18. https://doi.org/10.1007/s001140050382.
Leza, M. Mar, Miguel A. Miranda-Chueca, e Bethan V. Purse. 2016. «Patterns in Varroa Destructor Depend on Bee Host Abundance, Availability of Natural Resources, and Climate in Mediterranean Apiaries». Ecological Entomology 41 (5): 542-53. https://doi.org/10.1111/een.12327.
Mitchell, Derek. 2016. «Ratios of Colony Mass to Thermal Conductance of Tree and Man-Made Nest Enclosures of Apis Mellifera: Implications for Survival, Clustering, Humidity Regulation and Varroa Destructor». International Journal of Biometeorology 60 (5): 629-38. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00484-015-1057-z.
2019. «Thermal efficiency extends distance and variety for honeybee foragers: analysis of the energetics of nectar collection and desiccation by Apis mellifera». Journal of The Royal Society Interface 16 (150): 20180879. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2018.0879.
Brevi
L’EPA citata a giudizio dagli apicoltori americani per la riautorizzazione del sulfoxaflor: https://earthjustice.org/news/press/2019/pesticide-sulfoxaflorbeekeepers-sue-trump-epa https://earthjustice.org/sites/default/files/files/STAMPED%20
-%201-3%20Petition%20for%20Review%209-6-19.pdf
Durante l’accoppiamento i fuchi iniettano alle api regine tossine accecanti: https://elifesciences.org/articles/45009?fbclid=IwAR3GynNOYCFup-9WkFhIu-LdJEYKM09BemLa1fLXBT1Rrhqfi_d_MwfCNDI
Lo scozzese prigioniero di guerra che sfidò Hitler e allevò le api in un campo di prigionia tedesco : https://www.scotsman.com/news/people/incredible-lost-story-of-beekeeping-scottish-prisoner-of-war-unearthed-by-researchers-1-4995192
Sanità apistica
Oxybee e Api-Bioxal, uno dei due è meglio? | Riccardo Cabbri
http://www.alveis.it/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Oxybee-brochure-2018-EUROPE-ALVEIS.pdf
https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/documents/assessment-report/oxybee-epar-public-assessment-report_en.pdf
Brevi
I neonicotinoidi contaminano la melata, uccidendo gli insetti utili che se ne nutrono
https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/documents/assessment-re-port/oxybee-epar-public-assessment-report_en.pdf
Origine dei mieli: la Francia verso la trasparenza in etichetta
Pubblicato il report di ISMEA sulla produzione del miele
http://www.ismea.it/istituto-di-servizi-per-il-mercato-agricolo-alimentare
Apicoltori fai-da-te in aumento: Berlino invasa dagli sciami di api
Novità dalla ricerca
Varroa: alla ricerca di una soluzione sostenibile | Umberto Vesco e Gianluigi Bigio
Al Toufailia, Hasan, Esmaeil Amiri, Luciano Scandian, Per Kryger, e Francis L. W. Ratnieks. 2014. «Towards integrated control of varroa: effect of variation in hygienic behaviour among honey bee colonies on mite population increase and deformed wing virus incidence». Journal of Apicultural Research 53 (5): 555–62. https://doi.org/10.3896/IBRA.1.53.5.10.
Bigio, Gianluigi, Roger Schürch, e Francis L. W. Ratnieks. 2013. «Hygienic Behavior in Honey Bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae): Effects of Brood, Food, and Time of the Year». Journal of Economic Entomology 106 (6): 2280–85. https://doi.org/10.1603/EC13076.
Broeckx, Bart J. G., Lina De Smet, Tjeerd Blacquière, Kevin Maebe, Mikalaï Khalenkow, Mario Van Poucke, Bjorn Dahle, et al. 2019. «Honey Bee Predisposition of Resistance to Ubiquitous Mite Infestations». Scientific Reports 9 (1): 7794. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-44254-8.
Conlon, Benjamin H., Adriana Aurori, Alexandru-Ioan Giurgiu, John Kefuss, Daniel S. Dezmirean, Robin F. A. Moritz, e Jarkko Routtu. s.d. «A Gene for Resistance to the Varroa Mite (Acari) in Honey Bee (Apis Mellifera) Pupae». Molecular Ecology in press. Consultato 10 maggio 2019. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.15080.
Conlon, Benjamin H., Eva Frey, Peter Rosenkranz, Barbara Locke, Robin F. A. Moritz, e Jarkko Routtu. 2018. «The Role of Epistatic Interactions Underpinning Resistance to Parasitic Varroa Mites in Haploid Honey Bee (Apis Mellifera) Drones». Journal of Evolutionary Biology 31 (6): 801–9. https://doi.org/10.1111/jeb.13271.
Danka, Robert G., Jeffrey W. Harris, José D. Villa, e Garrett E. Dodds. 2013. «Varying Congruence of Hygienic Responses to Varroa Destructor and Freeze-Killed Brood among Different Types of Honeybees». Apidologie 44 (4): 447–57. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13592-013-0195-8.
Fuchs, S. 1990. «Preference for drone brood cells by Varroa jacobsoni Oud in colonies of Apis mellifera carnica». Apidologie 21 (3): 193–199.
Harbo, John R., e Jeffrey W. Harris. 2009. «Responses to Varroa by honey bees with different levels of Varroa Sensitive Hygiene.» Journal of Apicultural Research 48 (3): 156–61. https://doi.org/10.3896/IBRA.1.48.3.02.
Ibrahim, A., e M. Spivak. 2006. «The Relationship between Hygienic Behavior and Suppression of Mite Reproduction as Honey Bee (Apis Mellifera) Mechanisms of Resistance to Varroa Destructor.» Apidologie 37 (1): 31–40. https://doi.org/10.1051/apido:2005052.
Kefuss, John, Jacques Vanpoucke, Maria Bolt, e Cyril Kefuss. 2015. «Selection for resistance to Varroa destructor under commercial beekeeping conditions». Journal of Apicultural Research 54 (5): 563–76. https://doi.org/10.1080/00218839.2016.1160709.
Kurze, Christoph, Jarkko Routtu, e Robin F. A. Moritz. 2016. «Parasite resistance and tolerance in honeybees at the individual and social level». Zoology, SI: Host-Parasite Coevolution, 119 (4): 290–97. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.zool.2016.03.007.
Leclercq, Gil, Tjeerd Blacquière, Nicolas Gengler, e Frédéric Francis. 2018. «Hygienic removal of freeze-killed brood does not predict Varroa-resistance traits in unselected stocks». Journal of Apicultural Research 57 (2): 292–99. https://doi.org/10.1080/00218839.2018.1426350.
Locke, Barbara. 2016. «Inheritance of Reduced Varroa Mite Reproductive Success in Reciprocal Crosses of Mite-Resistant and Mite-Susceptible Honey Bees (Apis Mellifera)». Apidologie 47 (4): 583–88. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13592-015-0403-9.
Locke, Barbara, e Ingemar Fries. 2011. «Characteristics of honey bee colonies (Apis mellifera) in Sweden surviving Varroa destructor infestation». Apidologie 42 (4): 533–42. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13592-011-0029-5.
Oxley, PETER R, Spivak, e B.P. Oldroyd. 2010. «Six Quantitative Trait Loci Influence Task Thresholds for Hygienic Behaviour in Honeybees (Apis Mellifera)». Molecular Ecology 19 (7): 1452–61. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-294X.2010.04569.x.
Page, Paul, Zheguang Lin, Ninat Buawangpong, Huoqing Zheng, Fuliang Hu, Peter Neumann, Panuwan Chantawannakul, e Vincent Dietemann. 2016. «Social apoptosis in honey bee superorganisms». Scientific Reports 6 (giugno). https://doi.org/10.1038/srep27210.
Wagoner, Kaira M., Marla Spivak, e Olav Rueppell. 2018. «Brood Affects Hygienic Behavior in the Honey Bee (Hymenoptera: Apidae)». Journal of Economic Entomology 111 (6): 2520–30. https://doi.org/10.1093/jee/toy266.
Ricerca
Stop Velutina | Sara Danielli, Antonio Iannone e Laura Bortolotti
www.StopVelutina.it
http://www.StopVelutina.it/effettua-una-segnalazione/
Brevi
Aethina tumida, nuova segnalazione in Sicilia: http://www.apicoltorisiciliani.it/comunicato-sullaethina-tumida-in-sicilia/
120 milioni di euro al settore dell’apicoltura dalla Ue nei prossimi tre anni: https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_19_3032
Le api selvatiche costruiscono il loro nido con… la plastica: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs13592-019-00635-6
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2019/06/wild-bees-building-homes-from-plastic/
Il cambiamento climatico modifica l’odore dei fiori: http://theconversation.com/climate-change-bees-are-disorientated-by-flowers-changing-scents-119256
Documento
1http://www.fao.org/news/story/it/item/1132334/icode/
2https://forbes.it/2019/05/06/biodiversita-allarme-onu-una-specie-su-8-sara-estinta-a-breve-rapporto-ipbes-rischio-ambiente/
3https://www.repubblica.it/ambiente/2017/10/20/news/abbiamo_perso_tre_quarti_degli_insetti_volanti_gli_esperti_e_un_armageddon_ecologico_-178820043/
Sanità apistica
Varroa: PolyVar Yellow® prove di efficacia in Italia | Umberto Vesco
González-Cabrera, Joel, Helen Bumann, Sonia Rodríguez-Vargas, Peter J. Kennedy, Klemens Krieger, Gertraut Altreuther, Annemarie Hertel, Gillian Hertlein, Ralf Nauen, and Martin S. Williamson. 2018. “A Single Mutation Is Driving Resistance to Pyrethroids in European Populations of the Parasitic Mite, Varroa Destructor.” Journal of Pest Science 91 (3): 1137–44. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10340-018-0968-y.
Medici, Sandra K., Matías D. Maggi, Edgardo G. Sarlo, Sergio Ruffinengo, Juan M. Marioli, and Martín J. Eguaras. 2016. “The Presence of Synthetic Acaricides in Beeswax and Its Influence on the Development of Resistance in Varroa Destructor.” Journal of Apicultural Research, 267-274, 54 (3): 267–74. https://doi.org/10.1080/00218839.2016.1145407.
Milani, N. 1995. “The Resistance of Varroa Jacobsoni Oud to Pyrethroids: A Laboratory Assay.” Apidologie 26 (5): 415–29. https://doi.org/10.1051/apido:19950507.
Norberto Milani, and Giorgio Della Vedova. 2002. “Decline in the Proportion of Mites Resistant to Fluvalinate in a Population of Varroa Destructor Not Treated with Pyrethroids.” Apidologie 33 (4): 417–22. https://doi.org/10.1051/apido:2002028.
Stara, Jitka, Stano Pekar, Marta Nesvorna, Tomas Erban, Hana Vinsova, Jan Kopecky, Ivo Doskocil, Martin Kamler, and Jan Hubert. 2019. “Detection of Tau-Fluvalinate Resistance in the Mite Varroa Destructor Based on the Comparison of Vial Test and PCR–RFLP of Kdr Mutation in Sodium Channel Gene.” Experimental and Applied Acarology 77 (2): 161–71. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10493-019-00353-9.
Stara, Jitka, Stano Pekar, Marta Nesvorna, Martin Kamler, Ivo Doskocil, and Jan Hubert. 2019. “Spatio-Temporal Dynamics of Varroa Destructor Resistance to Tau-Fluvalinate in Czechia, Associated with L925V Sodium Channel Point Mutation.” Pest Management Science 75 (5): 1287–94. https://doi.org/10.1002/ps.5242.
Biologia
Trasmissione di agenti patogeni dalle specie di api allevate alle specie di api selvatiche | Agnès Fayet – traduzione di Chiara Concari
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Sanità apistica
Api-Bioxal®, disponibile ora anche in formulato liquido | Giovanni Guido
https://doi.org/10.1007/s13592-015-0405-7
https://www.apidologie.org/articles/apido/abs/2001/02/milani/milani.html
Novità dalla ricerca
Varroa e cambiamenti climatici
¬ Nürnberger, Fabian, Stephan Härtel, e Ingolf Steffan-Dewenter. 2018. «The Influence of Temperature and Photoperiod on the Timing of Brood Onset in Hibernating Honey Bee Colonies». PeerJ 6 (maggio): e4801. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4801.
¬ 2019. «Seasonal Timing in Honey Bee Colonies: Phenology Shifts Affect Honey Stores and Varroa Infestation Levels». Oecologia, marzo. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00442-019-04377-1.
¬ Switanek, Matthew, Karl Crailsheim, Heimo Truhetz, e Robert Brodschneider. 2017. «Modelling seasonal effects of temperature and precipitation on honey bee winter mortality in a temperate climate». Science of The Total Environment 579 (febbraio): 1581-87. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.11.178.
¬ Berry, Jennifer A., e Keith S. Delaplane. 2001. «Effects of comb age on honey bee colony growth and brood survivorship». Journal of Apicultural Research 40 (1): 3-8. https://doi.org/10.1080/00218839.2001.11101042.
¬ Colwell, M. J., R. W. Currie, e S. F. Pernal. 2017. «Viruses in Unexpected Places: New Transmission Routes of European Honey Bee (Apis Mellifera) Viruses». In , 106-7. Galvestone, Texas. http://www.agr.gc.ca/eng/abstract/publication?id=39367000000484.
¬ De Guzman, Lilia I., Amanda M. Frake, e Michael Simone-Finstrom. 2017. «Comparative Flight Activities and Pathogen Load of Two Stocks of Honey Bees Reared in Gamma-Irradiated Combs». Insects 8 (4): 127. https://doi.org/10.3390/insects8040127.
¬ De Guzman, Lilia I., Michael Simone-Finstrom, Amanda M. Frake, e Philip Tokarz. 2019. «Comb Irradiation Has Limited, Interactive Effects on Colony Performance or Pathogens in Bees, Varroa Destructor and Wax Based on Two Honey Bee Stocks». Insects 10 (1): 15. https://doi.org/10.3390/insects10010015.
¬ Graystock, P., J. C. Jones, T. Pamminger, J. F. Parkinson, V. Norman, E. J. Blane, L. Rothstein, F. Wäckers, D. Goulson, e W. O. H. Hughes. 2016. «Hygienic food to reduce pathogen risk to bumblebees». Journal of Invertebrate Pathology 136 (maggio): 68-73. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jip.2016.03.007.
¬ Meeus, Ivan, Hadi Mosallanejad, Jinzhi Niu, Dirk C. de Graaf, Felix Wäckers, e Guy Smagghe. 2014. «Gamma irradiation of pollen and eradication of Israeli acute paralysis virus». Journal of Invertebrate Pathology 121 (settembre): 74-77. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jip.2014.06.012.
¬ Simone-Finstrom, Michael, Kate Aronstein, Michael Goblirsch, Frank Rinkevich, e Lilia de Guzman. 2018. «Gamma irradiation inactivates honey bee fungal, microsporidian, and viral pathogens and parasites». Journal of Invertebrate Pathology 153 (marzo): 57-64. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jip.2018.02.011.
¬ Singh, Rajwinder, Abby L. Levitt, Edwin G. Rajotte, Edward C. Holmes, Nancy Ostiguy, Dennis vanEngelsdorp, W. Ian Lipkin, Claude W. dePamphilis, Amy L. Toth, e Diana L. Cox-Foster. 2010. «RNA Viruses in Hymenopteran Pollinators: Evidence of Inter-Taxa Virus Transmission via Pollen and Potential Impact on Non-Apis Hymenopteran Species». PLoS ONE 5 (12): e14357. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0014357.
Monchanin, Coline, Mickaël Henry, Axel Decourtye, Anne Dalmon, Dominique Fortini, Elodie Bœuf, Ludovic Dubuisson, et al. 2019. «Hazard of a Neonicotinoid Insecticide on the Homing Flight of the Honeybee Depends on Climatic Conditions and Varroa Infestation». Chemosphere 224 (giugno): 360-68. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemosphere.2019.02.129.
Notizie in breve
Ghiacciai alpini contaminati da pesticidi utilizzati in Pianura Padana: è allarme per la fauna, i pesticidi contaminano ovunque https://www.adnkronos.com/sostenibilita/world-in-pro-gress/2019/03/14/unibicocca-pesticidi-alta-quota-rischio-inset-ti-ghiacciai-alpini_UlMkJTm18oJL6JW8kMMT5O.html
Colonie di api più in salute e più produttive in campi non coltivati
Da 44 a oltre 260 euro: cambia il valore della produzione standard per alveare
Bayer: nuova sconfitta in tribunale USA e manifestazioni contro il colosso tedesco
Biologia
Vade retro Apis mellifera? | Agnès Fayet, traduzione di Chiara Concari
http://biodiversite.wallonie.be/fr/abeilles-sauvages.html?IDC=5623
https://www7.inra.fr/opie-insectes/pdf/i160fraval1.pdf
posizione di Natagora: https://www.natagora.be/index.php?id=3354
Reportage
L’isola dove volano le api liguri | Chiara Concari
http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/sa/num_act/lba342o48a49v1885237/lba342o48a49v1885237.pdf
https://www.island-beehive.com.au/
Ambasciatori dei mieli
Piccoli grandi apicoltori | Irene Chiletti, Mattia Beccantini e Andrea Bandini
Brevi
La varroa si nutre del corpo grasso delle api e non dell’emolinfa
https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2019/01/08/1818371116
Baviera, oltre un milione e mezzo di cittadini chiede un referendum per salvare le api
Dicamba: l’erbicida che mette in ginocchio l’apicoltura statunitense
https://www.revealnews.org/article/bees-face-yet-another-lethal-threat-in-dicamba-a-drift-prone-pesticide/
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/5689925-David-Mortensen-Amicus.html
https://setac.onlinelibrary.wi-ley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/etc.3169
Beecome in Romania dal 22 al 24 marzo 2019
http://beecome.org/
Documento
https://efsa.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.2903/j.efsa.2012.2668
https://actions.sumofus.org/pages/saves-the-bees-stop-approving-bee-harming-pesticides/
Api e ambiente
Le centraline di biomonitoraggio ambientale con le api
1 Erick V. S. Motta, Kasie Raymann, Nancy A. Moran, Glyphosate perturbs the gut microbiota of honey bees, PNAS 10, 2018 (www.pnas.org)
Italia in fiore… le api ringraziano
Tecnica apistica
ColEval: un nuovo ‘metro’ veloce e intuitivo per la ‘misura’ degli alveari | Michele Tagliabue, Eleonora Bassi, Giovanni Guido
http://w3.avignon.inra.fr/lavandes/biosp/index.html
http://w3.avignon.inra.fr/lavandes/biosp/CIAGColEval15.10.2016%20VF.pdf
Seduti al ristorante
Di agricoltura simbiotica.. | Luca Bosco
Per saperne di più: www.agricolturasimbiotica.it
Brevi
Il gruppo di apicoltori “Api brianzole” contro il glifosato propone alternative eco-friendly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQwEeVe0_6I&feature=youtu.be
Siamo di fronte a un’apocalisse degli insetti? https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/27/magazine/insect-apocalypse.html
Come abbonarsi
Costo dell’abbonamento:
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30 euro spedizione in abbonamento postale
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50 euro spedizione in abbonamento postale
- 60 euro spedizione in abbonamento postale
Le somme indicate possono essere versate:
- sul c/c postale N. 23728108 intestato a Associazione Produttori miele Piemonte – Aspromiele, Via Drovetti, 5 10138 Torino
- sul c/c bancario IBAN IT80R0609510400000000181256 intestato ad Associazione Produttori miele Piemonte – Aspromiele – BIC BPMOIT22XXX – Cassa di Risparmio di Bra – Agenzia di Alessandria (in caso di bonifico bancario è obbligatorio l’invio, tramite e-mail: info@lapisonline.it o fax 0131-250368, della contabile del pagamento contenente l’indirizzo completo dell’abbonato e la dicitura nella causale “Abbonamento L’Apis”)
- oppure aggiungendo l’abbonamento al carrello acquisti
Novità dalla ricerca
Varroa: alla ricerca di una soluzione sostenibile | Umberto Vesco e Gianluigi Bigio
Al Toufailia, Hasan, Esmaeil Amiri, Luciano Scandian, Per Kryger, e Francis L. W. Ratnieks. 2014. «Towards integrated control of varroa: effect of variation in hygienic behaviour among honey bee colonies on mite population increase and deformed wing virus incidence». Journal of Apicultural Research 53 (5): 555–62. https://doi.org/10.3896/IBRA.1.53.5.10.
Bigio, Gianluigi, Roger Schürch, e Francis L. W. Ratnieks. 2013. «Hygienic Behavior in Honey Bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae): Effects of Brood, Food, and Time of the Year». Journal of Economic Entomology 106 (6): 2280–85. https://doi.org/10.1603/EC13076.
Broeckx, Bart J. G., Lina De Smet, Tjeerd Blacquière, Kevin Maebe, Mikalaï Khalenkow, Mario Van Poucke, Bjorn Dahle, et al. 2019. «Honey Bee Predisposition of Resistance to Ubiquitous Mite Infestations». Scientific Reports 9 (1): 7794. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-44254-8.
Conlon, Benjamin H., Adriana Aurori, Alexandru-Ioan Giurgiu, John Kefuss, Daniel S. Dezmirean, Robin F. A. Moritz, e Jarkko Routtu. s.d. «A Gene for Resistance to the Varroa Mite (Acari) in Honey Bee (Apis Mellifera) Pupae». Molecular Ecology in press. Consultato 10 maggio 2019. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.15080.
Conlon, Benjamin H., Eva Frey, Peter Rosenkranz, Barbara Locke, Robin F. A. Moritz, e Jarkko Routtu. 2018. «The Role of Epistatic Interactions Underpinning Resistance to Parasitic Varroa Mites in Haploid Honey Bee (Apis Mellifera) Drones». Journal of Evolutionary Biology 31 (6): 801–9. https://doi.org/10.1111/jeb.13271.
Danka, Robert G., Jeffrey W. Harris, José D. Villa, e Garrett E. Dodds. 2013. «Varying Congruence of Hygienic Responses to Varroa Destructor and Freeze-Killed Brood among Different Types of Honeybees». Apidologie 44 (4): 447–57. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13592-013-0195-8.
Fuchs, S. 1990. «Preference for drone brood cells by Varroa jacobsoni Oud in colonies of Apis mellifera carnica». Apidologie 21 (3): 193–199.
Harbo, John R., e Jeffrey W. Harris. 2009. «Responses to Varroa by honey bees with different levels of Varroa Sensitive Hygiene.» Journal of Apicultural Research 48 (3): 156–61. https://doi.org/10.3896/IBRA.1.48.3.02.
Ibrahim, A., e M. Spivak. 2006. «The Relationship between Hygienic Behavior and Suppression of Mite Reproduction as Honey Bee (Apis Mellifera) Mechanisms of Resistance to Varroa Destructor.» Apidologie 37 (1): 31–40. https://doi.org/10.1051/apido:2005052.
Kefuss, John, Jacques Vanpoucke, Maria Bolt, e Cyril Kefuss. 2015. «Selection for resistance to Varroa destructor under commercial beekeeping conditions». Journal of Apicultural Research 54 (5): 563–76. https://doi.org/10.1080/00218839.2016.1160709.
Kurze, Christoph, Jarkko Routtu, e Robin F. A. Moritz. 2016. «Parasite resistance and tolerance in honeybees at the individual and social level». Zoology, SI: Host-Parasite Coevolution, 119 (4): 290–97. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.zool.2016.03.007.
Leclercq, Gil, Tjeerd Blacquière, Nicolas Gengler, e Frédéric Francis. 2018. «Hygienic removal of freeze-killed brood does not predict Varroa-resistance traits in unselected stocks». Journal of Apicultural Research 57 (2): 292–99. https://doi.org/10.1080/00218839.2018.1426350.
Locke, Barbara. 2016. «Inheritance of Reduced Varroa Mite Reproductive Success in Reciprocal Crosses of Mite-Resistant and Mite-Susceptible Honey Bees (Apis Mellifera)». Apidologie 47 (4): 583–88. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13592-015-0403-9.
Locke, Barbara, e Ingemar Fries. 2011. «Characteristics of honey bee colonies (Apis mellifera) in Sweden surviving Varroa destructor infestation». Apidologie 42 (4): 533–42. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13592-011-0029-5.
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Page, Paul, Zheguang Lin, Ninat Buawangpong, Huoqing Zheng, Fuliang Hu, Peter Neumann, Panuwan Chantawannakul, e Vincent Dietemann. 2016. «Social apoptosis in honey bee superorganisms». Scientific Reports 6 (giugno). https://doi.org/10.1038/srep27210.
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Ricerca
Stop Velutina | Sara Danielli, Antonio Iannone e Laura Bortolotti
www.StopVelutina.it
http://www.StopVelutina.it/effettua-una-segnalazione/
Brevi
Aethina tumida, nuova segnalazione in Sicilia
http://www.apicoltorisiciliani.it/comunicato-sullaethina-tumida-in-sicilia/
120 milioni di euro al settore dell’apicoltura dalla Ue nei prossimi tre anni
https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_19_3032
Le api selvatiche costruiscono il loro nido con… la plastica
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs13592-019-00635-6
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2019/06/wild-bees-building-homes-from-plastic/
Il cambiamento climatico modifica l’odore dei fiori
http://theconversation.com/climate-change-bees-are-disorientated-by-flowers-changing-scents-119256
