In this paper, the current knowledge on mitigation strategies to reduce pesticide inputs into surface water and groundwater, and their effectiveness when applied in practice is reviewed.

Eusocial honey bee populations (Apis mellifera) employ an age stratification organization of egg, larvae, pupae, hive bees and foraging bees.

The hazard posed to honeybees by systemic insecticides is determined by toxicity tests that are designed to study the effects of insecticides applied on the aerial parts of plants, but are not adapted to systemic substances used as soil or seed treatments.

Understanding the effect of pesticides on the survival of honeybee colonies is important because these pollinators are reportedly declining globally.

Monitoring hives in April is wonderful as much as a delicate exercise. We’re illustrating it here with three examples issued this season.

Our goal for this project is to design a sensor system that wiill be able to monitor the temperature and acoustic range of a hibernating bee hive.

While pollination is necessary to produce most of the fruits and vegetables we eat, it is even more mandatory for kiwi.

Honeybees (Apis mellifera L.) are excellent biosensors that can be managed to collect valuable information about environmental contamination.

Honeybees exposed to very small doses of neurotoxic substances such as imidacloprid, don’t die but they present dysfunction or disorder of their nervous system, their glandular system as well as their cardiac and respiratory rhythms.

We propose a modelling framework aiming at assessing the bee health status and forecast colony outputs. Two modelling tools are here presented: (i) a Health Status Index (HSI) exploring the consequences of abiotic, biotic drivers and beekeeping actions on bee health; and (ii) predictive models for the estimation of honey production and the provision of pollination service considering abiotic, biotic drivers and HSI.