Bees, both commercially managed honey bees and wild bees, play an important role in global food production. In the United States alone, the value of insect pollination to U.S. agricultural production is estimated at $16 billion annually, of which about three-fourths is attributable to honey bees.

During the flu time and the Corona pandemy use regularly (once or twice a day, in the morning and in the evenening) gargling with a propolis 20 % alcohol solution.

Having printed and studied all the bee candy references in the archives, we decided to attempt to take a fudgy or fondant-like candy.

Chronic exposure to multiple, interacting stressors is driving honey bee colony losses and declines of wild pollinators

Bees are still under threat from abuse of pesticides. Four pesticides which are highly toxic to bees (including neonicotinoids and fipronil) were banned in 2013.

Apitherapy presents as a promising source of pharmacological and nutraceutical agents for the treatment and/or prophylaxis of COVID-19.

A panel on bee research was convened at the recent meeting of the American Beekeeping Federation. Billed as what bee researchers want from beekeepers and vice versa, presentations from both points of view showed that a substantial divide exists between these groups.

Bee treatment products: situation in Europe enumerating companies producing these treatment products.

A total of 5115 beekeepers weresurveyed from February 23 to March 8, including 723 in Wuhan, the outbreak epicentre of Hubei. None of these beekeepers developed symptoms associated with COVID-19, and their health was totally normal.

BeeLife and its member Romapis stand along with all beekeeper colleagues after Romanian government issued for the 5th consecutive year a temporary authorisation for EU-wide restricted insecticides.