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	Brood - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Brood comb, the area in a beehive where the queen lays eggs and new bees are raised
		Brood (comics), an alien species from the Marvel Comics universe
		Elliott Brood, a death country band from Toronto
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Brood (148 words)

	Brood (honeybee) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In Langstroth hives each frame which is mainly brood (usually with some pollen and nectar or honey in the upper corners) is called a brood frame.
		In wild honeybee hives the bees tend to put the brood at bottom center, and honey to the sides and above the brood, so beekeepers are trying to follow the natural tendency of the bees.
		Bee brood frames are composed of eggs, larvae and pupae.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Brood_(honeybee) (523 words)

	Honeybee (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The honeybee is a colonial insect that is often maintained, fed, and transported by farmers.
		Honeybees are a subset of bees which fall into the Order Hymenoptera and Suborder Apocrita.
		Honeybees store honey (which is made from nectar) in their hives, which provides the energy for flight muscles and for heating during the winter period, and pollen which supplies protein for bee brood to grow.
	honeybee.mindbit.com (1942 words)

	The Honeybee Colony - BC Ministry of Agriculture and Lands
		Honeybees can not survive on their own for long, but require the social setting of the colony.
		Honeybees forage for four products: (1) nectar, which is converted into honey; (2) pollen, which is the protein and fat portion of the bees' diet; (3) water; and (4) propolis, or bee glue.
		The honeybee queen is unique in being the only individual responsible for the reproduction of the colony population.
	www.agf.gov.bc.ca /apiculture/factsheets/104_colony.htm (1127 words)

	Value-added products from beekeeping. Chapter 8.
		As adult honeybees are the producers of all the primary products of beekeeping, it is unlikely that a beekeeper will sell these adult bees when he or she is interested in production of primary products.
		Honeybees or their brood can however, constitute a primary product, and may be sold directly or be processed for other uses.
		Honeybee brood of all ages is eagerly consumed by honey hunters in Africa and Asia and is generally considered a delicious treat.
	www.fao.org /docrep/w0076e/w0076e19.htm (5458 words)

	Honeybee Health Products: Honey Bee Products - Honeybee information from Vita-Europe
		Ascophaera apis, a fungus, causes the disease known as chalkbrood in honeybee larvae.
		The varroa mite, Varroa destructor (Anderson and Trueman) is a voracious parasite of the European honeybee, Apis mellifera.
		However infection of honeybees and the appearance of disease symptoms seems to depend to a large extent on other stress factors on the colony, such as lack of space, food or water, weather pattern or infection by other means be they bacterial, fungal or mite.
	www.beekeeping.com /vita/disease.htm (415 words)

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		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.
		I instrumentally inseminated honeybee queens with semen that was either genetically similar (from one male) or genetically diverse (from multiple males), and then inoculated their colonies with spores of Ascosphaera apis, a fungal pathogen that kills developing brood.
		We examined the effect of octopamine treatment on responsiveness to brood pheromone (an activator of foraging) and to the presence of older bees in the colony (an inhibitor of foraging in young bees).
	www.canis.uiuc.edu /~schatz/databases/honeybee.biosis-1980.txt (9027 words)

	Honeybee Disease Detection - BC Ministry of Agriculture and Lands
		Capped brood is uneven with puncture holes in the caps of brood cells.
		The larval remnant may be a light brown mass sunk onto the bottom side of the brood cell.
		Replace 20% of all brood frames each year so that after a few years, no brood frame is older than five years.
	www.agf.gov.bc.ca /apiculture/factsheets/205_disdetect.htm (1597 words)

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		Honeybees were not significantly genetically se- lected by humans until recently because basic bee reproduction was not understood until 1845.
		Brood cells are filled with brood faster than they are emptied by the emer- gence of new bees, so the area containing brood expands.
		Brood Diseases In some areas, systematic applications of antibiotic chemicals during spring and fall hive examinations are used to prevent Amer- ican and European foulbrood (Table 2).
	www.uky.edu /Ag/Entomology/ythfacts/4h/beekeep/beekeep.txt (11927 words)

	Beekeeping, Urban Style
		Honeybees are a gentle, and truly wonderful insect in many important ways.
		The life span of a worker honeybee is only 4 to 6 weeks during the summer, and as many months in the winter.
		A colony of honeybees is a cluster of bees that live together as a family with a single mother, within the hive.
	www.honeybee.com /beeinfo.htm (4087 words)

	Honeybee
		Honeybees have a bright color pattern to warn potential predators (or honey thieves!) that they have a weapon to defend themselves.
		When the hive is threatened, honeybees will swarm out and attack with their stingers to drive the enemy away.
		After preparing a brood chamber, she gathers pollen and nectar until she has enough to feed a larva to adulthood.
	www.gpnc.org /honeybee.htm (2276 words)

	Colin H Denholm. PhD thesis. Bibliography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Beetsma, J. The varroa mite, a devastating parasite of western honeybees and an economic threat to beekeeping.
		Further observations on the correlation between attractiveness of honey-bee brood cells to Varroa jacobsoni and the distance from larva to cell rim.
		Ontogenesis of the mite Varroa jacobsoni Oud in drone brood of the honeybee Apis mellifera L under natural conditions.
	www.rothamsted.bbsrc.ac.uk /pie/phdwebsite/bibliography.html (4527 words)

	Honeybee Improvement Program Protocol
		Our bee breeding goal is honeybee stock which has under 20% annual loss rate (all causes) while being totally untreated for either of the very troublesome parasitic bee mites, known commonly as the Varroa mite and the Tracheal mite.
		As much of the brood nest area as possible (preferably all) must be over the trap so most all the mites that fall hit the trap and get stuck on the sticky paper.
		Day 4 - 48 hours from when you reinserted the first frozen brood samples, insert the 2nd frozen brood sample and thumbtack that frame (if a different one) then examine the 1st frozen brood sample and record the results (pull the tumbtack off first sample frame).
	griffes.tripod.com /HIP1.html (3732 words)

	BeeSource.com \| ViewPoint \| Lusby \| Part 22
		The down sizing of brood comb by manual shake-down in the field to natural brood comb sizing, before that made for enlarged brood combs at the turn of the 19th century, will realign the bees' body size to again match their native flora.
		The size of the honeybee is correlated with the capacity of the cell.
		Keeping this in mind, it makes perfect sense to downsize (retrogress) artificially enlarged brood combs to natural sized brood combs to take advantage of the 0.8 population replacement of Varroa jacobsoni when drones are seasonally ejected by colonies at the end of each honey gathering season.
	www.beesource.com /pov/lusby/part22.htm (1977 words)

	Foulbrood diseases (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Honeybees are afflicted by a number of diseases, but two of the most serious affect the developing brood.
		The first stage is to destroy the adult bees and brood combs by incineration, then the hives and any appliances are sterilised by scorching with a blowlamp.
		EFB is spread most readily by the beekeeper, during transfer of combs, brood or other items from an infected hive to a healthy one.
	www.csl.gov.uk /science/organ/environ/bee/diseases/foulbrood/foulbrood.cfm (1071 words)

	Honeybee - RIRDC Completed Projects in 2002--2003 & Research in Progress as at June 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		However, before fatty acids can be used in the treatment of honeybees, factors such as a carrier for the fatty acid, the stability of the fatty acid to be tested and appropriate doses must be determined.
		A study undertaken in 1989 by Gill estimated the contribution of honeybee pollination to Australian agriculture was between $0.6 and $1.2 billion.
		However, the paper demonstrates that a loss of the honeybee would see a major restructuring of agriculture in Australia, and to the extent that the value of an essential ingredient should be attributed the value of the whole, honeybee pollination services make a major contribution to Australian agriculture.
	www.rirdc.gov.au /comp03/hb1.html (7324 words)

	Honeybee basics
		The life of all honeybees starts as an egg, about the size of a comma "," which is laid by the queen in the bottom of a wax cell in the brood area of a hive.
		Pollen from the stamens of one flower, stick to their bodies, and is carried to another flower where it rubs off onto the pistil, resulting in cross pollination.
		Worker bees must maintain the hive's brood chamber at 94 degrees F to incubate the eggs.
	www.roctronics.com /BEE-BASE.HTM (638 words)

	Beekeeping in the United States
		Language: English Descriptors: New York; Apis mellifera; Honeybee colonies; Mortality; Overwintering; Trachea; Acarapis woodi; Incidence; Commercial beekeeping Abstract: Colonies of honey bees, Apis mellifera L., infested with Acarapis woodi (Rennie) were studied during the four winters of 1985-1989 in New York state.
		Spring brood areas were negatively correlated with mite prevalence and mite load scores.
		No.: 424.8 AU72 The use of ethylene oxide to fumigate honeybee equipment in the United States and Canada during the 1970's (for the control of honeybee diseases and pests).
	www.nal.usda.gov /afsic/AFSIC_pubs/qb93-30.htm (10407 words)

	Regulation for inspection and treatment of Honeybee related diseases
		All brood frames in the bee family must be inspected, and also those, former used as brood frames, must be examined.
		At the end of the beekeeping season, the bee disease inspector make up a final report over the beehives and bee yards that are inspected in the local area, and this report are sent to the project group beekeeping latest the 15.
		Beefamilies with clinical symptoms of foul brood may be killed if it is a wish from the beekeeper or the bee disease inspector determines that he families are for week to be treated.
	apimo.dk /afb/regulation.htm (1274 words)

	Glossary of Bee Terms
		Africanized Honey Bee - a wild bee popularly known as the "killer bee;" aggressive bee not comfortable being around people or animals; more likely to sense a threat at greater distances, become more upset with less reason, and sting in much greater numbers.
		American foulbrood disease - one of the most widespread and destructive of the bacterial honeybee brood diseases
		Brood - immature forms of bees (and other insects); include eggs, larvae, and pupae
	honeybee.tamu.edu /about/glossary.html (96 words)

	Cyt2001 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Multiple mating of the honeybee queen in one nuptial flight.
		Brood rearing and absconding of tropical honey bees.
		brood infestation by parasitic mites: 172 - 175.
	www.sggw.waw.pl /~woyke/Cyt2001.html (1365 words)

	The Monk and the Honeybee
		In the center you have the breeding hut, a beautifully equipped bee house for the nuclei with the breeder queens of the respective season, the "pearls" of the yield colonies of the previous year.
		The lower brood box with the queen gets a new place in the morning, and the upper, queenless brood box takes its place, as well as the bees from 3 open brood combs from the first brood box.
		What is more, although the Buckfast brood was already imported in 1968 and was then kept and bred until 1986 in the absence of trachea mites, it kept its full resistance against the inside mite.
	www.rweaver.com /adam.html (8070 words)

	Bee breeding (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Hygienic behavior is expressed by bees uncapping and removing diseased brood.
		These diploid drone larva are eaten by workers as the egg hatches.
		Brood pattern and viability are determined by the diversity of the sex alelles.
	members.aol.com /queenb95/genetics.html (554 words)

	Bibliography of Current Bee Breeding Topics
		Ifantidis M, (1983) Ontogenesis of the mite Varroa jacobsoni in worker and drone honeybee brood cells.
		Ifantidis M, (1984) Parameters of the population dynamics of the Varroa mite on honeybees.
		Martin S (1994) Ontogenesis of the mite Varroa jacobsoni in worker brood of the honeybee Apis mellifera under natural conditions.
	hometown.aol.com /queenb95/bibliog.html (4302 words)

	Department of Entomology - Special Seminar
		He is a pioneer in honey bee brood pheromone and has published in prestigious journals such as Science and Nature.
		He also has two patents on the use of brood pheromone.
		LE CONTE Y., SRENG L., TROUILLER J., 1994 - The recognition of larvae by worker honeybees.
	www.cyberbee.net /seminar.html (297 words)

	brood - OneLook Dictionary Search
		Brood : Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
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	Beekeeping Library & Links Page
		Here in the library are many links provided to help you explore the fascinating world of the Honeybees and Beekeeping.
		A Biometrical Study of the Influence of Size of Brood Cell Upon the Size and Variability of the Honeybee
		The Influence of Brood Comb Cell Size on the Reproductive Behavior of the Ectoparasitic Mite Varroa Destructor in Africanized Honeybee Colonies
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