Neonicotinoid seed treatments are routinely applied to 80% of maize seed grown in USA to >80% of maize (corn) seed grown in North America.

The National Union of French Beekeeping (UNAF) today announced victory at the Council of State for France, against authorization of the pesticide CRUISER® UNAF requested the cancellation of three annual decisions to allow CRUISER 350, and the condemnation of the Ministry of Agriculture, at a Special Public Hearing of the Council of State of France.

This important role in modern agriculture has rendered honeybees vulnerable to the noxious effects of anthropogenic stressors such as pesticides.

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are a relatively new method of acquiring scientific data in a variety of applications and although their use has expanded greatly in recent years there has been no evaluation of the use of UAVs in the investigation of honey bee drone congregation areas (DCAs)

The European Commission’s proposed deregulation of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) made with new techniques.

With around 80 % of the European population now living in cities, green spaces in urban and peri-urban areas have become vital in ensuring people a healthy quality of life.

There are three anti-varroa treatments containing thymol that have a marketing authorization for the treatment of colonies against varroa in Iran.

It is well known that continuous hive weight monitoring can be applied for honeybee management.

A prebiotic that also exists in honey was added in the trials. Bees fed the prebiotics have slightly higher pathogen counts but lower mortalities.

Value-added products from beekeeping.This bulletin tries to synthesize available information from scientific literature and practical, technical literature including the few in-depth reviews available on some of the primary bee products such as honey,