Factors associated with agricultural intensification, for example, loss of seminatural vegetation and pesticide use has been shown to adversely affect the bee community. These factors may impact the bee community differently at different landscape scales.

In the long line of Apimondia Congresses (over a century of rich exchanges), Daejeon will be remembered as a great event, the one that answered the scientific and beekeeping world’s expectations of a strong International Federation.

The Panel has interpreted the Terms of Reference as a stepwise analysis of issues relevant to both the development and the evaluation of models to assess ecological effects of pesticides. The regulatory model should be selected or developed to address the relevant specific protection goal.

Asian hornets (Vespa velutina) are voracious predators of bees, and are the latest emerging threat to managed and wild pollinator populations in Europe. To prevent establishment or reduce the rate of spread of V. velutina, early detection and destruction of nests is considered the only option.

The Bayer CropScience view on Maxim and van der Sluijs ‘Seed dressing systemic insecticides and honeybees: a challenge for democratic governance of controversies on chemical risks’

We investigated an effect of Apis mellifera worker brood on the reproduction of Varroa destructor as a resistance trait by conducting seven generations of bidirectional selection. Initial tests showed twofold differences in mite fecundity (progeny per foundress mites) between colonies of different origins.

Sex-related differences in susceptibility to pathogens are a common phenomenon in animals. In the eusocial Hymenoptera the two female castes, workers and queens, are diploid and males are haploid

Multiple mating (and insemination) by females with different males, polyandry, is widespread across animals, due to material and/or genetic benefits for females.

Depending on the latitudes, the winter can be more or less mild, and the colonies can go through a variety of situations.