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Apis florea drone flight: longevity and flight performance

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Buawangpang, Ninat, Sukumalanand, Prachaval, and Burgett, D. Michael

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Mating flight records are presented for males (drones) of the Asian dwarf honeybee species Apis florea. These include observations on longevity, mortality and inclusive flight records for a cohort of known-aged males. Averages for flight performance show the flights/lifetime to be 15.3 (± 11.8 SD); the number of flight days,...

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performance* Ninat Buawangpang1, Prachaval Sukumalanand1, Michael Burgett2 1 Faculty of Agriculture
Behavioral responses underpinning resistance and susceptibility of honeybees to Tropilaelaps mercedesae

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Khongphinitbunjong, Kitiphong, de Guzman, Lilia I., Burgett, Michael D., Rinderer, Thomas E., and Chantawannakul, Panuwan

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Behavioral responses of Apis cerana, Apis dorsata, and Apis mellifera to the ectoparasitic mite, Tropilaelaps mercedesae, were compared using two laboratory bioassays: cohorts of 50 caged worker bees and individual-caged worker bees, all of unknown ages. For the group bioassays, ten T. mercedesae were placed on the bodies of bees...

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Bongkotch Boopha for their assistance in collecting bees. We are also grateful to Dr. Prachaval Sukumalanand