Africanized populations are a major concern to the beekeeping industry as well as a model for the evolutionary genetics of colony defence.

Growing evidence for global pollinator decline is causing concern for biodiversity conservation and ecosystem services maintenance. Neonicotinoid pesticides have been identified or suspected as a key factor responsible for this decline.

When it comes to invasive species in beekeeping (not including Varroa mite which invaded Europe a long time ago), we think about small hive beetle, the yellow leg Asian hornet and the tropilelaelaps mite.

One of the conditions necessary for conversion from traditional to organic beekeeping is substitution of all the nest-combs with residue-free foundations...

Acaricides, antimicrobial drugs and fungicides are not highly toxic alone, but in combination they can be heighly toxic due to interactive effects.

The influence of season and volatile compounds on the acceptance of introduced European honey bee queens into European and Africanized colonies.

Regional declines in insect pollinators have raised concerns about crop pollination. Many pollinator studies use visitation rate (pollinators/time) as a proxy for the quality of crop pollination.

Airborne sound and vibrational signals play an important role in honeybee communication.

The prevailing general consensus goes to a complex of interactions, among which, pesticides,fungicides,parasites and habitat loss.

In spite of the implementation of control strategies in honey bee (Apis mellifera) keeping, the invasive parasitic mite Varroa destructor remains one of the main causes of colony losses in numerous countries.