This report covers apiculture 2017-2019, for the time period 1 August 2016 to 31 July 2019. These are the first years where new measures applied.

Here evaluate the inhibitory effects of Apis mellifera bee venom (BV-Am) and of its two main components - melittin and phospholipase on E. coli.

A study of the role of phytochemicals in pesticide tolerance when worker bees were fed with sublethal doses (1 ppb and 10 ppb) of thiamethoxam

Oxalic acid is a very effective active substance against Varroa mites if applied in the absence of brood and with sufficient humidity in the hive.

Here, we study the effect of oxalic acid on isolated varroa mites and on varroa mites parasitizing caged honey bees treated with oxalic acid per os or topically (by trickling or by sublimation).

Evaluating the effects of neonicotinoids on forager bees in conditions as near as possible to those in nature presents a big but necessary challenge.

Melipona favosa favosa is reputed to produce an anticataract honey. Ocular cataracts are opacifications of the ocular lenses. The senile cataract is considered as belonging to public health. Other etiologies comprise diabetes, UV radiation, traumatisms. In this work we used the selenite model to induce cataracts in rats, and to test the effect of Melipona honey eye drops.

Virgin honeybee queens, were held in the centre of brood nest of both queenless and queenright strong colonies using two types of cages and fed by workers through a wire screen holes, emerging cage (EC) with two wire screen sides and Benton cage (BC) with one side of wire screen

When worker honey bees, Apis mellifera L., were exposed to sublethal pesticide concentrations, the majority of tests revealed no significant differences between control and treatment groups in the ages when tasks were conducted.

In Europe, agri-environmental schemes (AES) have been introduced in response to concerns about farmland biodiversity declines.