Essays about: "apiculture"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 9 essays containing the word apiculture.

1. 1. Wireless Sensor Network for Controlling the Varroasis Spread within Bee colonies across a Geographical Region

   University essay from Blekinge Tekniska Högskola/Institutionen för datavetenskap

   Author : Venkat Sai Akhil Dasyam; Saketh Pokuri; [2024]
   Keywords : Wireless Sensor Networks; Monitoring and Control; Precision Beekeeping; Disease spread; Internet of Things.;

   Abstract : Background: With the global decline of honey bee populations, safeguarding these vital pollinators has become crucial. Varroa destructor mites are a primary threat, weakening bees and facilitating the spread of diseases, which can decimate colonies and disrupt ecosystems. READ MORE

3. 2. Fighting for Sustainability: A Case Study about Tenerife's Activism Movement

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för samhällsbyggnad och industriell teknik

   Author : Felicitas Brodtrager; [2023]
   Keywords : Sustainable destination development; activism; tourism impacts; stakeholder involvement; sustainability; alternative tourism model; system thinking; doughnut economics;

   Abstract : This research explores the perspectives of the opinion leaders of the activism movement in Tenerife on tourism on the island and the solutions proposed by these stakeholders to the current sustainability problems related to tourism. These issues include tourist's misbehavior in natural protected areas, waste, submarine emissions of residual water sewage, water shortage, gentrification, overtourism, overpopulation, 14,6% of unemployment in 2022, decline of agricultural land, high population density, etc. READ MORE

4. 3. A destructive host-shift : a comparative review of resistance mechanisms in the novel and original hosts of Varroa destructor

   University essay from SLU/Dept. of Ecology

   Author : Elin Sjögren Englund; [2022]
   Keywords : Varroa destructor; Apis cerana; Apis mellifera; host-shift;

   Abstract : Apiculture has a major antagonist in Varroa destructor, the ectoparasitic mite that has become the most prominent driver of colony losses for the European honey bee, Apis mellifera. This was not always the case, as V. destructor is native to Asia and originally only infested the Asian honey bee, Apis cerana. As these two species have co-evolved, A. READ MORE

5. 4. The introduction of the Africanised honey bee: A stinging menace or a blessing of the Americas? : a comparison of the Brazilian and USA beekeeping experiences

   University essay from SLU/Dept. of Urban and Rural Development

   Author : Jorge Antonio Moreno Reategui; [2020]
   Keywords : Beekeeping Social field; Africanised honey bee; qualitative and quantitative research methodology;

   Abstract : In 1956, Brazilian scientist Warwick Estevam Kerr, introduced queens of the African honey bee (AHB) from South Africa to breed with European honey bees (EHB) in order to improve honey production in Brazil. Some of the AHB swarmed by accident out of the experimental apiary, located in Rio Claro-São Paulo State, and started to spread. READ MORE

6. 5. Patogener och deras påverkan på honungsbin

   University essay from SLU/Dept. of Ecology

   Author : Johan Ekefäll; [2018]
   Keywords : honungsbin; pollinering; Varroa; amerikansk yngelröta; den lilla kupskalbaggen; patogener;

   Abstract : Bin har pollinerat blommor i miljontals år, och det finns idag över 20000 arter av bin världen över. Honungsbin omfattar sju av dessa arter som ingår i gruppen långtungade bin. Människan fick sin första smak av honung för flera tusen år sedan när de levde som jägare och samlare. READ MORE