Nikolaus Koeniger

TL;DR: It is argued that the fight against the ectoparasitic mite Varroa destructor should be a priority for future honey bee health research and the lack of efficient control methods currently available against the parasite is highlighted.

TL;DR: Considering the density of colonies around the congregation area and the average flight range of males, it suggests that most colonies within the recruitment perimeter delegated drones to the congregation with an equal probability, resulting in an almost perfect panmixis.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the behavioural mating barriers (mating season, mating place, sexual signals, daily mating periods), copulatory barriers (size, genitalia, mating sign) and physiological barriers (sperm transfer, sperm storage) and postzygotic barriers (fertilisation, development, hybrids).

TL;DR: Workers of six colonies of the giant honeybee Apis dorsata from Sabah, Malaysia and Java were genotyped using single locus DNA fingerprinting revealing the degree of polyandry of the queens.