Bee pollen is currently one of the most widely consumed dietary supplements due to its high nutritional value and potentially beneficial effects on health. Unfortunately, in recent years an increase fraudulent marketing this product has been detected, mainly terms adulteration with from other sources. This made it necessary seek new tools ensure authentication. Therefore, study investigates use...

The principles of Precision Agriculture (PA) can be applied also to the beekeeping branch. Precision Beekeeping (PB) (Precision Apiculture) can be implemented as a three phase cycle including 1) data collection, 2) data analysis and 3) application. The first two phases are based information technologies in case of remote recognition. The third phase is realized manually according to the decisio...

BACKGROUND The Varroa destructor varroasis is a very serious parasite of honeybee Apis mellifera. The objective of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of Varroa treatment using organic acid (oxalic acid) in Algeria identifying its side effects on bee colonies. METHODS Treatment was conducted in one apiary consisting 30 colonies kept in Langstroth hives kind. Oxalic acid dripped direc...

Over the past decade in North America and Europe, winter losses of honey bee (Hymenoptera: Apidae) colonies have increased dramatically. Scientific consensus attributes these losses to multifactorial causes including altered parasite and pathogen profiles, lack of proper nutrition due to agricultural monocultures, exposure to pesticides, management, and weather. One method to reduce colony loss...

Mexico is a major honey producer, but not much information exists about the health status of bees (Apis mellifera L.) in country. This study was conducted to determine sanitary adult Mexico’s five beekeeping regions. Samples from 369 apiaries were diagnosed identify pathogens such as Varroa destructor, which quantified, Acarapis woodi, Nosema spp., and viruses. Colonies also inspected for prese...

Bee bread, i.e., floral pollen collected and partially processed by honey bees, is a source of many compounds beneficial for the human health. So far, level bee bread production in apiaries has been low due to factors. However, development such may be significant as new income beekeepers. In spring 2015 three-year study was started determine scale colonies assess economic efficiency production....

Paenibacillus larvae is a highly contagious and often lethal widely distributed pathogen of honeybees, Apis mellifera but has not been reported in eastern Africa to date. We investigated the presence of P. larvae in the eastern and western highland agro-ecological zones of Uganda by collecting brood and honey samples from 67 honeybee colonies in two sampling occasions and cultivated them for P....

Although silver is known to be a broad-spectrum biocidal agent, the effects of this metal against Sacbrood virus have not yet been investigated. In this study, we evaluated the efficacy of silver ions against natural Korean sacbrood virus (KSBV) infection of Apis (A.) cerana. Ten KSBV-infected colonies containing A. cerana with similar strength and activity were selected from an apiary located ...

Very little effort has been made to investigate bee population dynamics among intact wilderness areas. The presence of newly-arrived feral Africanized honey bee (AHB), Apis mellifera (Apidae), populations was studied for 10-17 years in areas previously with few or no escaped European apiary honey bees. Here I describe and interpret the major results from studies in three neotropical forests: Fr...