US EditionSegmentation of the Subcuticular Fat Body in Apis Mellifera Females with Different Reproductive Potentials
- Earlier this month, the California Assembly approved legislation requiring the Department overseeing food and agriculture to develop a program focused on the health of managed honey bees.
- This legislation response follows reports showing beekeepers lost 1.6 million colonies, averaging 62% colony collapse from June 2024 to March 2025.
- Honey bees face multiple threats including parasitic Varroa mites that invade larvae and adults, causing flightlessness and mass colony die-offs nationwide.
- Ryan Burris, who leads the California State Beekeepers Association, emphasized the critical role of bees by noting that without them, approximately 75% of supermarket products would be affected.
- If enacted, the bill would provide grants supporting forage planting, feed, and health treatments, aiming to stabilize bee populations vital to agriculture and food security.
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Segmentation of the subcuticular fat body in Apis mellifera females with different reproductive potentials
Evolution has created different castes of females in eusocial haplodiploids. The difference between them lies in their functions and vulnerability but above all in their reproductive potentials. Honeybee queens are highly fertile. On the other hand, the workers are facultatively sterile. However, rebel workers, i.e. workers that develop in a queenless colony, reproduce more often than normal workers. As a result, the fat body of these bees, whic…
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Honey bees in CA are dying. Can a bipartisan bill help save them?
Honeybees sit on a honeycomb with drone brood cut out of a beehive in Berlin on May 5, 2020. Photo by Wolfgang Kumm, Reuters Honey bees across the country are under attack from tiny, eight-legged parasitic mites. These mites burrow between the segments of the bees’ adult bodies or invade their larvae and infect them with viruses — deforming their wings and leaving them flightless. That’s not only problematic for the bees — whose entire colonies…
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