Introduction:
"Toward understanding Honeybees in Asia"
(29KB)Dr. Kiyoshi Kimura
Senior Researcher, Honeybee Research Group, National Institute of Livestock and Grassland Science, National and Food Research Organization, Japan
Abstracts of Presentations:
Asian Honeybee
"Rural Beekeeper: a conservator of honeybees and their diversity"
(29KB)Dr. Ranjith Wasantha Kumara Punchihewa
Senior Lecturer, Department of Agricultural Biology, University of Ruhuna, Sri Lanka
Honeybee diseases
"Honeybee Viruses and Viral Diseases in Honeybees, Apis mellifera"
(156KB)Dr. Chen Yanping
Research Entomologist, Bee Research Laboratory, United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, USA
Defence mechanism
"Innate immune system in the honeybee"
(170KB)Dr. Mikio Yoshiyama
Researcher, Honeybee Research Group, National Institute of Livestock and Grassland Science, National and Food Research Organization, Japan
Differences between Asian and European honeybees
"1) Queen signal bias in ovarian activation in mixed-species colonies of honeybees
2) Predator-prey coevolution: differential behavioural reactions of Apis cerana and A. mellifera to a predatory wasp, Vespa velutina"
(23KB)Prof. Tan Ken
Professor, Eastern Bee Research Institute, Yunnan Agricultural University, China
Honey
"Antibiotic and Organoleptic Properties of Honey from Apis dorsata (Giant Honeybee) and Trigona laeviceps(Stingless Bee)"
(97KB)Dr. Chanpen Chanchao
Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand
Discussion: