Cultivation of pollinator-dependent crops has expanded globally, increasing our reliance on
insect pollination. This essential ecosystem service is provided by a wide range of managed …

The taxonomy of honey bee A. mellifera contains a lot of issues due to the specificity of
population structure, features of biology and resolutions of honey bee subspecies …

Bees have been managed and utilised for honey production for centuries and, more
recently, pollination services. Since the mid 20th Century, the use and production of …

The familiar European hive bee, Apis mellifera, has long dominated honey bee research.
But in the last 15 years, teams in China, Japan, Malaysia, and Thailand began to shift focus …

Reliable estimates on the ages of the major bee clades are needed to further understand the
evolutionary history of bees and their close association with flowering plants. Divergence …

The most widely recognized hymenopterans–ants, bees, and wasps or hornets–have long
been part of art, ritual, and folklore worldwide. Both extant and extinct Hymenoptera were …

A total of 738 colonies from 64 localities along the African continent have been analysed
using the DraI RFLP of the COI–COII mitochondrial region. Mitochondrial DNA of African …

Honey bee is vital for pollination and ecological services, boosting crops productivity in
terms of quality and quantity, and production of colony products: wax, royal jelly, bee venom …

The native range of the honeybee A pis mellifera encompasses E urope, A frica, and the M
iddle E ast, whereas the nine other species of Apis are found exclusively in A sia. It is …

The western honeybee, Apis mellifera, has been globally transported for honey production
and pollination for hundreds of years and is often kept in large numbers in beekee** …