The European Commission has proposed a ban on three neonicotinoids – imidacloprid,clothianidin and thiamethoxam  – on all crops with the exception of crops grown in permanent greenhouses, “where the crop stays its entire life cycle within the greenhouse and is thus not replanted outside”

Doctor Alfred Dietz, from America, was invited to Paris by ANERCEA to give a conference on the theme of "Wintering Fertilized Queens in Banks".

The EFSA Panel on Animal Health and Welfare, together with the Panel on Plant Health, is working on the HEALTHY-B self-mandate that has the objective to map indicators and factors that could be
included in large field studies

In July 2009, a group of entomologists and ornithologists met at Notre Dame de Londres, a small village in the French department of Hérault, as a result of an international enquiry amongst entomologists on the catastrophic decline of insects (and arthropods in general) all over Europe.

Neonicotinoids ban - Letter to Commission President Juncker co-signed by Apiservices

Two behaviors of honey bees, hygienic behavior and grooming, are mechanisms of defense against brood diseases and parasitic mites

We explore the provisioning, regulating, and cultural services of the honey bee, an insect at the interface between human and ecosystem health.