Biogeography and Taxonomy of Honeybees - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Biogeography and Taxonomy of Honeybees write by Friedrich Ruttner. This book was released on 2013-03-09. Biogeography and Taxonomy of Honeybees available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Honeybees are as small as flies or as large as hornets, nesting in nar row cavities of trees and rocks or in the open on large limbs of trees 30 m above ground. They occur in tropical zones and in the forests of the Ural mountains, they survive seven months of winter and even longer periods of drought and heat. Historically, they lived through a extended time of stagnation in the tropics from the mid-Tertiary, but then experienced an explosive evolution during the Pleistocene, re sulting in the conquest of huge new territories and the origin of two dozen subspecies in Apis mellifera. This vast geographic and ecologic diversification of the genus Apis was accompanied by a rich morphological variation, less on the level of species than at the lowest rank, the subspecies level. Variation being exclusively of a quantitative kind at this first step of speciation, tradi tional descriptive methods of systematics proved to be unsatisfactory, and honeybee taxonomy finally ended up in a confusing multitude of inadequately described units. Effective methods of morphometric-sta tistical analysis of honeybee popUlations, centered on limited areas, have been developed during the last decades. Only the numerical characterization of the populations, together with the description of behavior, shows the true geographic variability and will end current generalizations and convenient stereotypes.
Honeybees of Asia
Honeybees of Asia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Honeybees of Asia write by H. Randall Hepburn. This book was released on 2011-01-04. Honeybees of Asia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A multi-authored work on the basic biology of Asian honeybees, written by expert specialists in the field, this book highlights phylogeny, classification, mitochondrial and nuclear DNA, biogeography, genetics, physiology, pheromones, nesting, self-assembly processes, swarming, migration and absconding, reproduction, ecology, foraging and flight, dance languages, pollination, diseases/pests, colony defensiveness and natural enemies, honeybee mites, and interspecific interactions. Comprehensively covering the widely dispersed literature published in European as well as Asian-language journals and books, "Honeybees of Asia" provides an essential foundation for future research.
Phylogenetics of Bees
Phylogenetics of Bees - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Phylogenetics of Bees write by Rustem Abuzarovich Ilyasov. This book was released on 2019-12-19. Phylogenetics of Bees available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Bees are flying insects of the order Hymenoptera closely related to wasps and ants. The ancestors of bees are assumed to be predatory wasps, which switched to pollen consumption. Further, bees co-evolved with flowering plants and divided into several species according to climatic conditions. Widely known bees are western bees Apis mellifera, and eastern bees Apis cerana. This book sheds light on features of evolution, phylogenesis, speciation, adaptation to environment, and taxonomy of bees. It will be of particular relevance to evolutionists, geneticists, taxonomists, ecologists, population geneticist, and breeders.
Honey Bee Medicine for the Veterinary Practitioner
Honey Bee Medicine for the Veterinary Practitioner - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Honey Bee Medicine for the Veterinary Practitioner write by Terry Ryan Kane. This book was released on 2021-05-11. Honey Bee Medicine for the Veterinary Practitioner available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An essential guide to the health care of honey bees Honey Bee Medicine for the Veterinary Practitioner offers an authoritative guide to honey bee health and hive management. Designed for veterinarians and other professionals, the book presents information useful for answering commonly asked questions and for facilitating hive examinations. The book covers a wide range of topics including basic husbandry, equipment and safety, anatomy, genetics, the diagnosis and management of disease. It also includes up to date information on Varroa and other bee pests, introduces honey bee pharmacology and toxicology, and addresses native bee ecology. This new resource: Offers a guide to veterinary care of honey bees Provides information on basic husbandry, examination techniques, nutrition, and more Discusses how to successfully handle questions and 'hive calls' Includes helpful photographs, line drawings, tables, and graphs Written for veterinary practitioners, veterinary students, veterinary technicians, scientists, and apiarists, Honey Bee Medicine for the Veterinary Practitioner is a comprehensive and practical book on honey bee health.
Diversity In The Genus Apis
Diversity In The Genus Apis - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Diversity In The Genus Apis write by Deborah Roan Smith. This book was released on 2019-03-07. Diversity In The Genus Apis available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The honey bees were formerly seen as a small, static group comprising four species, whose behavior and ecology were simple variants on the patterns found in Apis mellifera. The picture now is one of a large, actively speciating group, reflecting in part the complex geological and biological influence of the Apis environment. Research on this diversity has benefitted from new techniques of DNA analysis applied to several long-standing problems in honey bee phylogenetics and that are reported in this volume. The behavior and ecology of the Apis species and populations are also more diverse and differentiated than previously recognized: Radically different orientation systems as expressed through dance language exist in various species. This study of Apis will be of great interest not only to biologists and apiculturalists but to anyone interested in systematics, genetics, and ethology. Our view of apis has changed radically in the past few years as a result of recent research on the Asian honeybee. The contributors to this book focus on systematics, genetics, behaviour and ecology to offer a synthesis for understanding this economically and scientifically important genus.
