Florida Bears and Beekeeping by Malcolm T. Sanford, James D. Ellis

“…This version updates the 1999 version with updated information on electric fencing, a comment on the Africanized honey bee, and references. Published by the UF Department of Entomology and Nematology, September 2006. …”
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Florida Beekeeping Management Calendar by James D. Ellis, Catherine M. Zettel Nalen

“…Zettel Nalen, provides Florida beekeepers a reference for honey bee colony management with specific guidance for region by month, including recommendations for major management considerations and blooming plants. …”
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Florida Bears and Beekeeping by Malcolm T. Sanford, James D. Ellis

“…This version updates the 1999 version with updated information on electric fencing, a comment on the Africanized honey bee, and references. Published by the UF Department of Entomology and Nematology, September 2006. …”
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Drone fly, rat-tailed maggot Eristalis tenax (Linnaeus) (Insecta: Diptera: Syrphidae) by Margaret Pfiester, Phillip E. Kaufman

“…It describes this hover fly that mimics the European honey bee and is adapted to living in polluted habitats — its distribution, description, life cycle, economic importance, and management. …”
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Drone fly, rat-tailed maggot Eristalis tenax (Linnaeus) (Insecta: Diptera: Syrphidae) by Margaret Pfiester, Phillip E. Kaufman

“…It describes this hover fly that mimics the European honey bee and is adapted to living in polluted habitats — its distribution, description, life cycle, economic importance, and management. …”
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Preguntas Frecuentes Acerca de la Abeja Melífera Africanizada en Florida by Michael K. O'Malley, James D. Ellis, P. Herrera, Anita S. Neal

“…Neal, is the Spanish language version of ENY140/IN738 Frequently Asked Questions about the Africanized Honey Bee in Florida. It provides information about Africanized honey bees (AHB) in a question-and-answer format. …”
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Preguntas Frecuentes Acerca de la Abeja Melífera Africanizada en Florida by Michael K. O'Malley, James D. Ellis, P. Herrera, Anita S. Neal

“…Neal, is the Spanish language version of ENY140/IN738 Frequently Asked Questions about the Africanized Honey Bee in Florida. It provides information about Africanized honey bees (AHB) in a question-and-answer format. …”
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Beelouse, Braula coeca Nitzsch (Insecta: Diptera: Braulidae) by Howard V. Weems, Jr., Malcolm T. Sanford

“… The beelouse, Braula coeca Nitzsch 1818, is a tiny commensalate wingless fly found in colonies of the honey bee, Apis mellifera Linnaeus, where it lives on the bodies of the bees and literally steals its food out of the mouth of its host. …”
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Building Bear Fences for Your Apiary by Kimberly K. Post, Cameron Jack

“… The American black bear is beloved, but it is also the most damaging vertebrate pest of honey bee apiaries in North America. That is in part because bears and beekeepers often share the same home territory. …”
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Beelouse, Braula coeca Nitzsch (Insecta: Diptera: Braulidae) by Howard V. Weems, Jr., Malcolm T. Sanford

“… The beelouse, Braula coeca Nitzsch 1818, is a tiny commensalate wingless fly found in colonies of the honey bee, Apis mellifera Linnaeus, where it lives on the bodies of the bees and literally steals its food out of the mouth of its host. …”
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Building Bear Fences for Your Apiary by Kimberly K. Post, Cameron Jack

“… The American black bear is beloved, but it is also the most damaging vertebrate pest of honey bee apiaries in North America. That is in part because bears and beekeepers often share the same home territory. …”
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Biodiversity of Non-<i>Apis</i> Bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea) in the Potohar Region of Pakistan by Sumera Aslam, Muhammad Naeem, Sabir Hussain, Maryam Riasat, Muhammad Ather Rafi, Ahmed Zia, Muhammad Khalid Rafique, Nawaz Haider Bashir, Huanhuan Chen

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Follower Position Does Not Affect Waggle Dance Information Transfer by Parry M. Kietzman, P. Kirk Visscher

“…It is known that the honey bee waggle dance communicates the distance and direction of some item of interest, most commonly a food source, to nestmates. …”
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Self-Adaptive Firefly-Algorithm-Based Unified Power Flow Controller Placement with Single Objectives by Selvarasu Ranganathan, S. Rajkumar

“…IEEE 14, 30, and 57 test systems are selected to accomplish the simulations and to reveal the efficacy of the proposed SAFA approach; besides, solutions are compared with two other algorithms solutions of honey bee algorithm (HBA) and bacterial foraging algorithm (BFA). …”
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Tawny Crazy Ant (previously known as Caribbean crazy ant) Nylanderia (formerly Paratrechina) fulva (Mayr) (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Formicinae) by Shweta Sharma, John Warner, Rudolf H. Scheffrahn

“…They can infest sidewalks, buildings and gardens, and damage phone lines, air conditioning units and computers. They have killed honey bee larvae and used the hives as their nests, and are even displacing red imported fire ants where the two populations overlap in Texas. …”
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Tawny Crazy Ant (previously known as Caribbean crazy ant) Nylanderia (formerly Paratrechina) fulva (Mayr) (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Formicinae) by Shweta Sharma, John Warner, Rudolf H. Scheffrahn

“…They can infest sidewalks, buildings and gardens, and damage phone lines, air conditioning units and computers. They have killed honey bee larvae and used the hives as their nests, and are even displacing red imported fire ants where the two populations overlap in Texas. …”
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Trigona corvina: An Ecological Study Based on Unusual Nest Structure and Pollen Analysis by David W. Roubik, J. Enrique Moreno Patiño

“…Potentially the oldest samples, in the middle of the nest, indicate that Mimosoideae, Euphorbiaceae, and Bombacaceae (now Malvaceae) were lost when Africanized honey bee competitors colonized Panama in 1984. Cecropia deposited in the nest increased markedly after landscape-level vegetation disturbance. …”
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Solving Multiobjective Optimization Problems Using Artificial Bee Colony Algorithm by Wenping Zou, Yunlong Zhu, Hanning Chen, Beiwei Zhang

“…ABC is one of the most recently introduced algorithms based on the intelligent foraging behavior of a honey bee swarm. It uses less control parameters, and it can be efficiently used for solving multimodal and multidimensional optimization problems. …”
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A Multiuser Detector Based on Artificial Bee Colony Algorithm for DS-UWB Systems by Zhendong Yin, Xiaohui Liu, Zhilu Wu

“…Artificial Bee Colony (ABC) algorithm is an optimization algorithm based on the intelligent behavior of honey bee swarm. The ABC algorithm was developed to solve optimizing numerical problems and revealed premising results in processing time and solution quality. …”
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Diversity of xerotolerant and xerophilic fungi in honey by E. Rodríguez-Andrade, A. M. Stchigel, A. Terrab, J. Guarro, J. F. Cano-Lira

“…We have surveyed and evaluated the presence of xerotolerant and xerophilic fungi in a set of honey bee samples collected from across Spain. From 84 samples, a total of 104 fungal strains were isolated, and morphologically and phylogenetically characterized. …”
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