Honey proteomic signatures for the identification of honey adulterated with syrup, producing country, and nectar source using SWATH-MS approach

We have developed a model of foraging behaviour of a honeybee colony based on reaction-diffusion equations and have studied how mapping the information about the explored environment to the hive determines this behaviour. The model utilizes two dominant components of colony's foraging behaviour — the recruitment to the located nectar sources and the abandonment of them. The recruitment is based upon positive feedback, i.e autocatalytic replication of information about the located source. If every potential forager in the hive, the onlooker, acquires information about all located sources, a common information niche is formed, which leads to the rapid selection of the most profitable nectar source. If the onlookers acquire information about some parts of the environment and slowly learn about the other parts, different information niches where individuals are associated mainly with a particular food source are formed, and the correspondent foraging trails coexist for longer periods. When selected nectar source becomes depleted, the foragers switch over to another, more profitable source. The faster the onlookers learn about the entire environment, the faster that switching occurs.

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Comparative study of honeys and herbhoneys quality paramertes

Acta Agraria Debreceniensis ◽

10.34101/actaagrar/72/1601 ◽

2017 ◽

pp. 117-120

Author(s):

Anna Novák ◽

Béla Kovács ◽

Nikolett Czipa

Keyword(s):

Comparative Study ◽

Positive Impact ◽

Health Benefits ◽

Sweet Taste ◽

Quality Parameters ◽

Nectar Source ◽

Relevant Regulation

Honey is one of the oldest known and consumed food. Besides the pleasant sweet taste it has been consumed because of the favorable health benefits. In addition to large number of honey plants there are many popular herbals which cannot serve as a nectar source. The herbhoney has been developed that consumers can joy the pleasant properties of herbals and honeys positive impact on the same product. In our research we compare the quality parameters of honeys and herbhoneys to each other and with the relevant regulation.

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Nectar source distribution as a determinant of oviposition host species in Euphydryas chalcedona

Oecologia ◽

10.1007/bf00379025 ◽

1984 ◽

Vol 62 (2) ◽

pp. 269-271 ◽

Cited By ~ 53

Author(s):

Dennis D. Murphy ◽

Marian S. Menninger ◽

Paul R. Ehrlich

Keyword(s):

Host Species ◽

Source Distribution ◽

Nectar Source ◽

Euphydryas Chalcedona

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Chapter 12 – Nectar Source Selection by Honey Bees

Self-Organization in Biological Systems ◽

10.1515/9780691212920-014 ◽

2001 ◽

pp. 189-216

Keyword(s):

Honey Bees ◽

Source Selection ◽

Nectar Source

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The location of floral nectar sources by mosquitoes: an advanced bioassay for volatile plant odours and initial studies with Aedes aegypti (L.) (Diptera: Culicidae)

Bulletin of Entomological Research ◽

10.1017/s0007485300015492 ◽

1988 ◽

Vol 78 (4) ◽

pp. 641-650 ◽

Cited By ~ 23

Author(s):

P. C. Jepson ◽

T. P. Healy

Keyword(s):

Aedes Aegypti ◽

Feeding Behaviour ◽

Floral Nectar ◽

Behavioural Activity ◽

Nectar Feeding ◽

Nectar Sources ◽

Nectar Source ◽

Plant Odours ◽

Ray Florets ◽

Light:Dark Cycle

AbstractThe development and testing of a bioassay system to evaluate the potency of floral odours as mediators of long-range floral nectar source location by mosquitoes are described. The bioassay is quantitative and behaviourally discriminating, upwind flying and landing acting as indices of behavioural activity over the 24-h light:dark cycle. In initial tests, the responses of Aedes aegypti (L.) to the flowers and floral odours of ox-eye daisy (Leucanthemum vulgare) were investigated. A. aegypti exhibited a biphasic diel cycle of nectar-feeding behaviour and landed on modified flowers that retained either their disc or ray florets. Most significantly, the mosquitoes responded in a similar way to the odour of L. vulgare in the absence of visual stimuli or nutritional cues. They did not respond to solvent extracts of ox-eye daisy flowers.

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