A comprehensive review of the honeybees of Africa on a subspecies as well as by country basis. Includes an updated multivariate analysis of the subspecies based on the merger of the Ruttner database (Oberursel) and that of Hepburn & Radloff (Grahamstown) for nearly 20,000 bees. Special emphasis is placed on natural zones of hybridisation and introgression of different populations; seasonal cycles of development in different ecological-climatological zones of the continent; swarming, migration and absconding; and an analysis of the bee flora of the continent. The text is supplemented by tables containing quantitative data on all aspects of honeybee biology, and by continental and regional maps.
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"Honeybees of Africa provides biologists with an excellent source of information and challenges. I applaud the authors for thoroughly synthesising what is known about A. mellifera across the whole of Africa, thereby setting the stage for countless exciting discoveries." Nature
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In broad terms, the physical continent of Africa consists of high and low regions. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
capensis workers, same apiary, supernumerary queens, scutellata queens, honeybee races, morphometric clusters, pheromonal bouquet, ovarial development, mellifera adansonii, pollen forage, sting pheromones, honeybee subspecies, colony absconds, small hive beetle, drone congregation areas, mellifera capensis, beeswax exports, monticola black, reproductive swarming, honeybee populations, prime swarm, drone production, bee flora, supersedure queens, hive beetles Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
South Africa, Bro Adam, Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso, Central African Republic, Flowering Bee, Flowering Total, Mean Variance, Jacot Guillarmod, Nile Valley, Ambougou Atisso, Region of Endemism, After Hepburn, Cape Town, Ngong Hills, Sierra Leone, Co-ordinates Sample, Honeybees of Northwestern Africa, South America, Agere Maryam, Bahir Dar, Beaufort West, Characteristics of Vegetation, Debre Markos, Morphometric Pheromonal Ovariole New!
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In broad terms, the physical continent of Africa consists of high and low regions. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
capensis workers, same apiary, supernumerary queens, scutellata queens, honeybee races, morphometric clusters, pheromonal bouquet, ovarial development, mellifera adansonii, pollen forage, sting pheromones, honeybee subspecies, colony absconds, small hive beetle, drone congregation areas, mellifera capensis, beeswax exports, monticola black, reproductive swarming, honeybee populations, prime swarm, drone production, bee flora, supersedure queens, hive beetles Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
South Africa, Bro Adam, Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso, Central African Republic, Flowering Bee, Flowering Total, Mean Variance, Jacot Guillarmod, Nile Valley, Ambougou Atisso, Region of Endemism, After Hepburn, Cape Town, Ngong Hills, Sierra Leone, Co-ordinates Sample, Honeybees of Northwestern Africa, South America, Agere Maryam, Bahir Dar, Beaufort West, Characteristics of Vegetation, Debre Markos, Morphometric Pheromonal Ovariole New!
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- Africanized Honey Bees and Bee Mites (Ellis Horwood series in entomology & acarology) by G.R. Needham on 12 pages
- Honey Bee Pests, Predators, and Diseases by Roger A. Morse on 9 pages
- Diversity in the Genus Apis (Westview Studies in Insect Biology) by Deborah Roan Smith in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Animal Behaviour (Questions & Answers About) by Anita Ganeri in Back Matter
- The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection by R. A. Fisher in Back Matter
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- Asian Honey Bees: Biology, Conservation, and Human Interactions by Benjamin P. Oldroyd in Back Matter
- The Kruger Experience: Ecology And Management Of Savanna Heterogeneity by Harry C. Biggs on page 274
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