Monitoring & analysis of honey bee losses in over 36 countries is mainly carried out by citizen science & volunteer beekeepers.

Of the 320 samples received from the competent authorities of the participating countries, 147 (46 %) were suspicious.

From the beginning, producers of these new insecticides denied their effects on bees: ‘bees don’t reach the molecule’, ‘ghosting is well under control’, ‘doses are harmless’...

Honey bees are crucial for our ecosystems as pollinators, but the intensive use of plant protection products (PPPs) in agriculture poses a risk for them.

We report on the isolation of the mitosporic fungus Beauveria bassiana from varroa mites, Varroa destructor, in capped worker brood cells of honey bees, Apis mellifera.

An experiment was carried out to investigate the efficacy of HiveAlive to disrupt the plasma membrane/spore coat of Nosema ceranae thereby killing the spores of this microsporidian parasite of honeybees.

Understanding preferences and aversions to nectar quality in flower visitors is crucial as this may influence the patterns of insect floral visitation.

Due to their large numbers, easy transportation, and special adaptation for efficient foraging (e.g. dance language), European honey bees (Apis mellifera L.) play a critical role in Michigan and US agriculture.

This study was conducted to isolate and diagnose different isolates of Varroa parasite collected from different regions of Iraq, lran, Turkey, Syria, Egypt, and Jordan.

This booklet (44 pages) contains four chapters on the theory underlying the design of breeding programs in honeybees.