Core Projects are Essential COLOSS activities constantly maintained. Task Forces are COLOSS activities timely created and discontinued, pending upon bottom-up demand in our field.
CORE PROJETCS
The COLOSS BEEBOOK is a unique venture that aims to standardise methods for studying the honey bee. From the outset, the vision of the project has been to develop a definitive inventory of standard techniques and methods in honey bee research, in order to ensure that studies performed by different laboratories…
Bridging Research and Practice (B-RAP) was established as a core project within the COLOSS association with the specific intention of supporting beekeepers and beekeeping by connecting science and beekeeping through the work of the beekeeping advisory services…
The colony loss monitoring group has been active since the start of the COLOSS COST action, now the COLOSS Association, to study reasons for colony losses. Participating countries each carry out an annual survey of beekeepers by questionnaire, with the aim of collecting information…
TASK FORCES
The COLOSS task force APITOX is composed of a group of independent scientists interested in bee toxicology. It emerged from discussions held during a scientific workshop at the 2013 European Beekeeping Congress BEECOME in Louvain la Neuve, Belgium…
The BeeScholars TF, aligned with COLOSS’s mission, is dedicated to strengthening the education and professional development of bee scientists. As part of this effort, we organize a webinar series designed to support early-career researchers in essential academic skills…
The Bee Nutrition Task Force (NUTRI TF) gathers independent experts in bee nutrition. This community aims at developing a multinational network that will engage in discussions and research. The NUTRI TF wants to facilitate and develop collaborations to produce synergistic scientifically-sound outputs…
The small hive beetle (Aethina tumida) is a honey bee pest, which can severely damage honey bee colonies. While they are considered a minor pest in most of their natural area of distribution in sub-Saharan Africa, they cause greater concern in their invasive range…
The Research Network for Sustainable Bee Breeding (beebreeding.net) is the task force dedicated to breeding and conservation within COLOSS. This task force aims to improve honey bee health by considering the bees’ genetic origin and how they interact with the surrounding environment…
The Varroa mite is one of the main challenges of today’s beekeeping almost worldwide due to its direct damages and those caused by the viruses it vectors. This Task Force of COLOSS is composed of Varroa destructor researchers, bee health experts, and extension workers…
The Vespid Task Force (abbreviated VTF), previously the Velutina Task Force, now broadens its remit to also include other Vespid species, alien or particularly dangerous to honeybees. Vespids are predatory species that feed on a diversity of insects…
The research on honey bee viruses is a quickly expanding frontier and there is an increasing need to address the appearance of new viruses, to establish standards to assess virus diversity and to gain better knowledge of the variability of viruses…
