Monthly Archives: May, 2017

Queen Quality and the Impact of Honey Bee Diseases on Queen Health

Abstract Western honey bees, Apis mellifera, live in highly eusocial colonies that are each typically headed by a single queen. The queen is the sole reproductive...

Using new cage type for keeping virgin honey bee queens with investigating impacts of feeding type

Abstract Under normal conditions, each honey bee colony contains one queen. Queenless colonies are mostly supplied with new queens using commercial caged queens. In some...

Spring mortality in bees in northeastern Italy: detection of pesticides and viruses in dead bees

Abstract In spring there is often a rise in honey bee mortality incidents. The aim of this study was to investigate the potential correlation, in the...