Varroa Survival and Control Revisited

Abstract

This issue picks up an omnipresent topic in beekeeping: The varroa mite, and if and how colonies of the Western honey bee in Europe can live with this parasite. With or without being treated with chemicals. We already presented this topic in 2018 in Bee World, Volume 95, Issue 2, and it turned out that the articles of Tjeerd Blacquière & Delphine Panziera and John McMullan became the two most frequently downloaded articles in Bee World! Each article was downloaded around 6000 times from the journal website at Taylor and Francis. According to the usage counting there, my editorial with the title “Varroa—to treat or not to treat?” was the most frequently downloaded editorial in Bee World ever! Consequently, we decided to provide an update on this topic of high interest.