Apiculture: Telling the bees

Bees in Crisis: Colony Collapse, Honey Laundering, and Other Problems Bee-Setting American Apiculture.

APICULTURE AND SOCIAL INSECTS Comparative Resistance of Russian and Italian Honey Bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae) to Small Hive Beetles (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae)

Tocompare resistance to small hive beetles (Coleoptera:Nitidulidae)betweenRussian and commercial Italian honey bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae), the numbers of invading beetles, their population levels through timeand small hivebeetle reproduction inside the coloniesweremonitored. We found that the genotype of queens introduced into nucleus colonies had no immediate effect on small hive beetle invasi...

APICULTURE AND SOCIAL INSECTS Infestation of Tracheal Mites (Acari: Tarsonemidae) in Feral and Managed Colonies of Honey Bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae)

J. Econ. Entomol. 86(3): 712-714 (1993) ABSTRACT We tested a population dynamics model that predicts that swarming of honey bees, Apis mellifera L., is a regulatory process of tracheal mites, Acarapis woodi (Rennie), parasitism. If the model is correct, then feral colonies that are free to swarm should have fewer numbers of infested worker bees, infested workers should have fewer numbers of mit...

Editor's Note/Man, the Story-Telling Animal

Application of Information Technologies in Precision Apiculture

Precision Agriculture approach has proved to be successful in various agricultural subbranches like precision livestock farming, precision farming, precision horticulture and precision viticulture. Apiculture or beekeeping is one of the agriculture’s sub directions, where Precision Agriculture (PA) methods can be successfully applied. Adaptation of PA methods and techniques into Apiculture, as ...