The Influence Of Propolis On Bees

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Propolis enables bees to protect the colony against hive intruders, by minimizing the hive entrance size and also bees can preserve their society against several bees’ diseases such as molds and bacterial infections through the anti-septic properties of propolis [8]. In linguistics the term propolis originates from the Greek pro (for “in front of’, “at the entrance to”) and polis (“city” or “community”) [10]. Meyer has described how the bees’ leg movement is actively involved in propolis collection procedure, along with assistance from the bees’ mouth parts, tongue, mandibles and corbiculae. Once the corbiculae is (“pollen basket” on the bee hind legs) full bees will fly back to hive where, propolis removal is carried out by other bees. This

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