Marla Spivak, David J C Fletcher, Michael D Breed

The african Honey Bee (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book is the first review of the scientific literature on the Africanized honey bee. The African subspecies Apis mellifera scutellata (formerly adansonii) was introduced into South America in 1956 with the intent of cross-breeding it with other subspecies of bees already present in Brazil to obtain a honey bee better adapted to tropical conditions. Shortly after its introduction, some of the African stock became established in the feral population around Sao Paulo, Brazil, and spread rapidly through Brazil. It has since migrated through most of the neotropics, displacing and/or hybridizing with the previously imported subspecies of honey bees. Africanized bees have been stereotype d as having high rates of swarming and absconding, rapid colony growth, and fierce defensivebehavior. As they have spread through the neotropics they have interacted with the human population, disrupting apiculture and urban activities when high levels of defensive behavior are expressed.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 435
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Juni 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000242614
• Artikelnr.: 56940582

Autorenporträt

Robert K. Vander Meer is a research chemist with the USDA/ARS. Michael D. Breed is professor of environmental population and organismic biology at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Mark L. Winston is professor of biological sciences at Simon Fraser University. Karl E. Espelie is professor of entomology at the University of Georgia at Athens.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Systematics and Identification
Systematics and Identification of Africanized Honey Bees
Genetic Characterization of Honey Bees through DNA Analysis
The Spread of Africanized Bees and the Africanization Process
Interdependence of Genetics and Ecology in a Solution to the African Bee Problem
The Processes of Africanization
Africanized Bees: Natural Selection for Colonizing Ability
The Africanization Process in Costa Rica
Honey Bee Genetics and Breeding
Continuing Commericial Queen Production after the Arrival of Africanized Honey Bees
Population Biology, Ecology, and Diseases
The Inside Story: Internal Colony Dynamics of Africanized Bees
Population Biology of the Africanized Honey Bee
Foraging Behavior and Honey Production
Aspects of Africanized Honey Bee Ecology in Tropical America
Bee Diseases, Parasites, and Pests
Defensive Behavior
Defensive Behavior
Genetics of Defensive Behavior I
Genetics of Defensive Behavior II
Beekeeping in South America
Beekeeping in Brazil
The Africanized Honey Bee in Peru
Beekeeping in Venezuela