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Apidologie

Vol. 35 No. 4 (July-August 2004)

• Natural products smoke and its effect on Acarapis woodi and honey bees     p. 341
  Frank A. Eischen and Carlos H. Vergara
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• Patterns of parasitism by tracheal mites (Locustacarus buchneri) in natural bumble bee populations     p. 351
  Michael Christopher Otterstatter and Troy Lorne Whidden
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• Old honey bee brood combs are more infested by the mite Varroa destructor than are new brood combs     p. 359
  Giancarlo A. Piccirillo and David De Jong
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• Mitochondrial DNA restriction and genomic maps of seven species of Melipona (Apidae: Meliponini)     p. 365
  Ricardo Weinlich, Flávio de Oliveira Francisco and Maria Cristina Arias
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• Proteins in spermathecal gland secretion and spermathecal fluid and the properties of a 29 kDa protein in queens of Apis mellifera     p. 371
  Michael Klenk, Gudrun Koeniger, Nikolaus Koeniger and Hugo Fasold
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• Queen honey bee introduction and early survival - effects of queen age at introduction     p. 383
  John W. Rhodes, Douglas C. Somerville and Steven Harden
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• Confinement of small hive beetles (Aethina tumida) by Cape honeybees (Apis mellifera capensis)     p. 389
  James D. Ellis Jr., Randall Hepburn and Patti J. Elzen
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• Electronic nose and neural network use for the classification of honey     p. 397
  Simona Benedetti, Saverio Mannino, Anna Gloria Sabatini and Gian Luigi Marcazzan
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• A semiochemical from larval food influences the entrance of Varroa destructor into brood cells     p. 403
  Francesco Nazzi, Norberto Milani and Giorgio Della Vedova
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• Comparison of the antimicrobial activity of honey produced by Tetragonisca angustula (Meliponinae) and Apis mellifera from different phytogeographic regions of Costa Rica     p. 411
  Jason H. DeMera and Esther R. Angert
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• The energy and nutritional demand of the parasitic life of the mite Varroa destructor     p. 419
  Assegid Garedew, Erik Schmolz and Ingolf Lamprecht
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• Polymerase Chain Reaction detection of deformed wing virus (DWV) in Apis mellifera and Varroa destructor     p. 431
  Diana Tentcheva, Laurent Gauthier, Sandrine Jouve, Laetitia Canabady-Rochelle, Benjamin Dainat, François Cousserans, Marc Edouard Colin, Brenda V. Ball and Max Bergoin
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• Transmission of Kashmir bee virus by the ectoparasitic mite Varroa destructor     p. 441
  Yanping Chen, Jeffery S. Pettis, Jay D. Evans, Matthew Kramer and Mark F. Feldlaufer
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• A scientific note on the nest and colony development of the Neotropical bumble bee Bombus (Robustobombus) melaleucus     p. 449
  Wolfgang R.E. Hoffmann, Alexandra Torres and Peter Neumann
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