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

Nosema ceranae primarily infects honey bee gut epithelial cells, leading to impaired memory, suppressed host immune responses and even CCD.

Pollination is a key ecosystem service for agricultural systems and Western honey bees, Apis mellifera, are the most important managed pollinators. ent efforts for managed pollinators.

The impacts of COVID-19 on human society are far-reaching. To estimate for the first time its impact on the bee research and education community, the Executive Committee of COLOSS (prevention of honey bee COlony LOSSes) developed an internet-based survey that was disseminated through COLOSS members to relevant stakeholders.

Pollinator declines can result in loss of pollination services which have important negative ecological and economic impacts that could significantly affect the maintenance of wild plant diversity.

Neonicotinoid pesticides pose severe threats to ecosystems worldwide, according to new information contained in an update to the world’s most comprehensive scientific review of the ecological impacts of systemic pesticides.

The mutualism between plants and their pollinators is likely to be disrupted by global warming that can cause mismatches between both halves of this interaction.

We explored the potential disruption of a ubiquitous mutualistic interaction of terrestrial habitats, that between plants and their animal pollinators, via climate change.

Glyphosate may affect bacterial symbionts of animals living near agricultural sites, including pollinators such as bees.

The reasons for relocating honey bee colonies are often economic: to provide pollination services and/or to follow honeydew and nectar flows as they occur.