Currently available morphometric and genetic techniques that can accurately identify
Africanized honey bees are both costly and time consuming. We tested two new …

Traditional morphometrics, allozymes, and mitochondrial data have supported a close
relationship between the M branch subspecies A. m. iberiensis and the North African …

Identification of honey bee (Apis mellifera) subspecies is important for their protection. It is
also used by queen breeders to maintain some breeding lines. In this study, we compared …

Monitoring insect populations is vital for estimating the health of ecosystems. Recently,
insect population decline has been highlighted both in the scientific world and the media …

In the present study, the microtaxonomy of honeybee (Apis mellifera L.) subspecies was
reevaluated based on a geometric morphometric method. Wing images of honeybee …

Background Bactrocera dorsalis ss is a pestiferous tephritid fruit fly distributed from Pakistan
to the Pacific, with the Thai/Malay peninsula its southern limit. Sister pest taxa, B. papayae …

Wing geometric morphometrics has been applied to honey bees (Apis mellifera) in
identification of evolutionary lineages or subspecies and, to a lesser extent, in assessing …

The stingless bee Melipona beecheii presents great variability and is considered a complex
of species. In order to better understand this species complex, we need to evaluate its …

Currently, the identification of pollinators is a critical necessity of conservation programs.
After it was found that features extracted from patterns of wing venation are sufficient to …

Until the mid-1990s, the only microsporidium known to infect bees of the genus Apis was
Nosema apis. A second species, Nosema ceranae, was first identified in 1996 from Asian …