Honey bee populations are experiencing alarming declines due to a combination of biotic and abiotic stressors, including parasites, pathogens, habitat loss, pesticide exposure, and climate change.

Vespa velutina nigrithorax, an Asian bee-hawking hornet, has been unintentionally introduced in southwestern France before 2004 and is currently widely spreading across the country. Its arrival in northern Spain was reported in 2010.

Alien species are usually characterized by their overall flexibility especially when facing disturbance (LEE & GELEMBIUK, 2008). Social hymenopteran are such highly flexible species due to eusociality: they exhibit behavioural plasticity due to their organization in castes; they also have high reproductive rates, demonstrate efficient competitive and dispersal abilities and are opportunistic foragers
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By the President of the Republic of Greece at the inauguration of Notre Dame Cathedral on December 7, 2024, coinciding with the opening of the Beekeeping Conference at the 15th Honey Festival.

It would probably be easier to enumerate the cultures which do not chronicle some kind of use of bees as weapons since this motif is so pervasive.

Comparisons were made between changes in median lifespan and experimental design variables, population, water use, pollen use, pollen substitute use.

Neonicotinoid pesticides (“neonics”) are nicotine-based insecticides that target the central nervous system of insect pests. They are systemic pesticides, meaning they are absorbed by the plant and contaminate all plant tissues

Neonicotinoid pesticides pose problems to the ecological health and safety of the EU. For this reason, under existing legislation, the Commission intends to apply the precautionary principle though legislative action.

The pressures on honeybee (Apis mellifera) populations, resulting from threats by modern pesticides, parasites, predators and diseases, have raised awareness of the economic importance and critical role this insect plays in agricultural societies across the globe.