Abstract The Western honey bee Apis mellifera is a managed species that provides diverse
hive products and contributing to wild plant pollination, as well as being a critical component …

Land-use change and habitat loss have profoundly disturbed the resource availability for
many organisms in farmlands, including bees. To counteract the resulting decline of bees …

Abstract Beekeepers in the United States have experienced high losses of managed honey
bee (Apis mellifera) colonies for more than a decade. Long-term, multi-year monitoring …

This article presents managed honey bee colony loss rates over winter 2019/20 resulting
from using the standardised COLOSS questionnaire in 37 countries. Six countries were from …

This article presents managed honey bee colony loss rates over winter 2018/19 resulting
from using the standardised COLOSS questionnaire in 35 countries (31 in Europe). In total …

Over the last quarter century, increasing honey bee colony losses motivated standardized
large-scale surveys of managed honey bees (Apis mellifera), particularly in Europe and the …

Despite the presence of a large number of pollinators of flowering plants worldwide, the
European honey bee, Apis melifera, plays the most important role in the pollination of a …

Honeybees are important pollinators, having an essential role in the ecology of natural and
agricultural environments. Honeybee colony losses episodes reported worldwide and have …

Beekeepers have various options to control the parasitic mite Varroa destructor in honey
bee colonies, but no empirical data are available on the methods they apply in practice. We …

Bees play an important role in agriculture and ecology, and their pollination efficiency is
essential to the economic profitability of farms. The drastic decrease in bee populations …