HONEY Researches

Biodiversity Conservation And Current Threats To European Honeybees

Europe harbours several endemic honeybee (Apis mellifera) subspecies. Yet the distribution of these subspecies is nowadays also much inï¬‚uenced by beekeeping activities. Large scale migratory beekeeping and trade in queens, coupled with the promiscuous mating system of honeybees, have exposed native European honeybees to increasing introgressive hybridization with managed non-native subspecies,

Pilar De laRÂ´, Rodolfo JaffÂ´ , Raï¬€aele Dallâ€™Olio, Irene MuËœnoz, JosÃ© Serrano | Created at: July 18, 2020 | Researched at: February 12, 2009

Topical Manuka Honey For MRSA-Contaminated Skin Ulcers

This paper reports on three hospice patients for whom topical manuka honey (MH), applied daily, improved ulcers contaminated with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA).

John Chambers | Created at: July 01, 2020 | Researched at: August 01, 2006

Potential Of Honey In The Treatment Of Wounds And Burns

There has been a renaissance in recent times in the use of honey, an ancient and traditional wound dressing, for the treatment of wounds, burns, and skin ulcers. In the past decade, there have been many reports of case studies, experiments using animal models, and randomized controlled clinical trials that provide a large body of very convincing evidence for its effectiveness, and biomedical research that explains how honey produces such good results

Peter C. Molan | Created at: July 01, 2020 | Researched at: January 01, 2001

Honey For Wound Healing, Ulcers, And Burns; Data Supporting Its Use In Clinical Practice

The widespread existence of unhealed wounds, ulcers, and burns has a great impact on public health and the economy. Many interventions, including new medications and technologies, are being used to help achieve significant wound healing and to eliminate infections.

Noori S. Al-Waili, Khelod Salom , and Ahmad A. Al-Ghamdi | Created at: July 01, 2020 | Researched at: April 05, 2011

Honey Based Skin Care Preparation

Concerning skin care preparations, a wound dressing is known from U.S. Pat. No. 4,671,267 wherein a polymer matrix containing a water-soluble humectant is used.

Jan Vandeputte | Created at: July 01, 2020 | Researched at: May 11, 2006

Comparison Of The Antibacterial Activity Of Honey From Different Provenance Against Bacteria Usually Isolated From Skin Wounds

The antibacterial activity of honey samples provided by apiarists and honey packers was tested against microorganisms usually isolated from skin wounds. The antibacterial activity was tested using the well-agar diffusion assay. The honey samples were tested without dilution, and at 75, 50, 30, and 10% (w/v) dilution

Claudia Basualdo , Veronica Sgroy , Monica S. Finola , Juan M. Marioli | Created at: July 01, 2020 | Researched at: April 25, 2007

Queen Promiscuity Lowers Disease Within Honeybee Colonies

Most species of social insects have singly mated queens, but in some species each queen mates with numerous males to create a colony with a genetically diverse worker force. The adaptive significance of polyandry by social insect queens remains an evolutionary puzzle. Using the honeybee (Apis mellifera), we tested the hypothesis that polyandry improves a colony’s resistance to disease.

Thomas D. Seeley, and David R. Tarpy | Created at: June 18, 2020 | Researched at: September 26, 2006

Genetic Diversity Within Honeybee Colonies Prevents Severe Infections And Promotes Colony Growth

Multiple mating by social insect queens increases the genetic diversity among colony members, thereby reducing intracolonic relatedness and lowering the potential inclusive ï¬tness gains of altruistic workers. Increased genetic diversity may be adaptive, however, by reducing the prevalence of disease within a nest. Honeybees, whose queens have the highest levels of multiple mating among social insects, were investigated to determine whether genetic variation helps to prevent chronic infections.

David R. Tarpy | Created at: June 18, 2020 | Researched at: November 19, 2002

Fever In Honeybee Colonies

Honeybees, Apis spp., maintain elevated temperatures inside their nests to accelerate brood development and to facilitate defense against predators. We present an additional defensive function of elevating nest temperature: honeybees generate a broodcomb fever in response to colonial infection by the heat-sensitive pathogen Ascosphaera apis.

Philip T. Starks 7 Caroline A. Blackie Thomas D. Seeley | Created at: June 18, 2020 | Researched at: January 28, 2020

Adaptive Significance Of The Age Polyethism Schedule In Honeybee Colonies

The adaptive origins of the honeybee's age polyethism schedule were studied by testing whether the schedule for labor inside the nest reflects a compromise between efficiency in locating tasks and efficiency in performing tasks.

Thomas D. Seeley | Created at: June 18, 2020 | Researched at: October 12, 1982

The Value Of Honeybee Pollination To Society

The agronomic and economic value of honeybee effected pollination has been an internationally contentious issue since at least the turn of the century. As early as 1913 horticultural scientists were urging cherry growers in Oregon State of the USA to employ bees for pollination: “…There is little question… that many cherry orchards would be rendered much more productive if their owners would give proper recognition to the known facts regarding the importance of bees in the orchard.” (Oregon Agricultural College Experiment Station 1913).

R.A. GILL | Created at: June 17, 2020 | Researched at: April 01, 1991

The Influence Of Honeybee Pollination On Fruit Set Of The Lowbush Blueberry

The importance of honeybees as a supplement to native bees in the pollination of lowbush blueberry has not been clearly established. Several workers have observed that native bees are not particularly abundant in blueberry fields during the period of bloom, and have suggested that fruit set maybe increased substantially by the use of honeybees

G. W. Wooo | Created at: June 17, 2020 | Researched at: September 09, 1960

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