In this research, we ranked bee pollen according to its contribution to bee nutrition, taking into consideration the seasonal variation.

Here, we show that a cost-effective social immunity mechanism has evolved rapidly and independently in four naturally V. destructor-surviving A. mellifera populations.

Cuba has the world’s largest European mite-resistant population with 220,000 colonies that have been treatment-free for over two decades.

Recent high annual losses of honey bee colonies, and reduced populations of native and wild bees in some geographic locations, may impact the availability of affordable food crops and the diversity and abundance of native and wild plant species.

uropean governments have banned the use of three common neonicotinoid pesticides due to insufficiently identified risks to bees. This policy decision is controversial given the absence of clear consistency between toxicity assessments of those substances in the laboratory and in the field.

The major reason for this ban is the release of dusts during sowing, that are toxic to honey bees.

A joint research project on the function and structure of endocrine and exocrine glands of honeybees has been carried out in collaboration with Prof. Pierre Cassier

The ectoparasitic mite, Varroa destructor, shifted host from the eastern honeybee, Apis cerana, to the western honeybee, Apis mellifera.

The risk exposure of bee colonies to the toxicity of systemic neonicotinoid insecticides was assessed. Various methods of chemical prevention of commercial winter and spring oilseed rape crops in field-realistic conditions were taken into account in the assessment.

The Swiss population of Apis mellifera mellifera is taken as a case study.