Bee WorldPub Date : 2021-11-09DOI: 10.1080/0005772X.2021.1988445
R. Dall’Olio, F. Mondet, Alexis L. Beaurepaire, Martin Gabel, B. Locke, Arrigo Moro, D. Panziera, P. Neumann
{"title":"COLOSS Survivors Task Force: Global Efforts to Improve Honey Bee Colony Survival","authors":"R. Dall’Olio, F. Mondet, Alexis L. Beaurepaire, Martin Gabel, B. Locke, Arrigo Moro, D. Panziera, P. Neumann","doi":"10.1080/0005772X.2021.1988445","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0005772X.2021.1988445","url":null,"abstract":"Introduction Honey bee colony survival is a complex issue in light of many environmental stressors. Among those stressors, the ectoparasitic mite, Varroa destructor, is the most significant threat to the survival of Western honey bees, Apis mellifera, and beekeeping worldwide. This parasite shifted hosts from Eastern honey bees, Apis cerana, to A. mellifera, and since spread almost globally. As a result, wild and feral A. mellifera populations in Europe and North America have been decimated. Without adequate and timely mite control by beekeepers, an A. mellifera colony likely collapses within a year or two (Rosenkranz et al., 2010). Therefore, beekeepers rely on mite control (most often chemical treatments) that can have side effects on the bees, likely results in resistant mites and reduces chances for bees and mites to adapting to one another (Fries & Camazine, 2001).","PeriodicalId":8783,"journal":{"name":"Bee World","volume":"99 1","pages":"17 - 19"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85867337","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Bee WorldPub Date : 2021-10-28DOI: 10.1080/0005772x.2021.1988233
K. Alton, F. Ratnieks
{"title":"Can Beekeeping Improve Mental Wellbeing during Times of Crisis?","authors":"K. Alton, F. Ratnieks","doi":"10.1080/0005772x.2021.1988233","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0005772x.2021.1988233","url":null,"abstract":"This paper examined how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected those interested in honey bees and the outdoors. It was investigated whether being outdoors and/or beekeeping has been a benefit to mental health using personal stories, examples from research, beekeeping groups, communities and the health service. The increase in online beekeeping teaching resources has helped bring knowledge about bees to perhaps a wider audience than previously, but training to become a beekeeper does need a certain hands-on element with beehives in an apiary setting. This is not just in order to gain confidence in handling bees, but also to learn from other beekeepers, and to bond in a social context. Although it is clear from the personal contributions to this article that beekeeping has helped immensely during the time of the COVID-19 crisis, more scientific research is needed to quantify the actual wellbeing effects. However, watching bees feeding on the flowers in gardens and parks is without doubt a pleasurable activity, and can be done by everyone.","PeriodicalId":8783,"journal":{"name":"Bee World","volume":"30 1","pages":"40 - 43"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83081416","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Bee WorldPub Date : 2021-10-20DOI: 10.1080/0005772X.2021.1982315
W. Kirk
{"title":"Is It Honey Bee or Honeybee? Bumble Bee or Bumblebee? Who Decides the Common Names of Bees?","authors":"W. Kirk","doi":"10.1080/0005772X.2021.1982315","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0005772X.2021.1982315","url":null,"abstract":"Anyone writing in English about bees will immediately encounter the question of whether to spell the common names as one word or two. Is it “honey bee” or “honeybee”? Is it “bumble bee” or “bumblebee”? It is easy to be confused because both spellings are frequently encountered. Bee World and Journal of Apicultural Research, like many other entomological journals, have clear rules for the common names of bees. It is “honey bee” not “honeybee,” and “bumble bee” not “bumblebee.” This follows the common names specified by the Entomological Society of America (2021a) in their database of over 2,000 common names of insects and related organisms. The list is well established and has grown considerably since it was first published in 1908. Names are reviewed by the Committee on the Common Names of Insects and voted on by the Governing Board (Entomological Society of America, 2021b). The common names follow a rule that was explained by Snodgrass (1956) in the preface to Anatomy of the Honey Bee:","PeriodicalId":8783,"journal":{"name":"Bee World","volume":"25 1","pages":"38 - 39"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77641717","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Bee WorldPub Date : 2021-10-12DOI: 10.1080/0005772X.2021.1981678
V. Soroker, Marin Kovacˇic´, F. Hatjina
{"title":"The COLOSS Varroa Task Force: Combating the Mite in the 21st Century","authors":"V. Soroker, Marin Kovacˇic´, F. Hatjina","doi":"10.1080/0005772X.2021.1981678","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0005772X.2021.1981678","url":null,"abstract":"Varroa Challenge Varroa destructor mites are parasites specific to honey bees Apis mellifera and A. ceranae and can be found both on adult bees and in cells where they feed and reproduce on developing brood. Varroa (Figure 1) began to parasitize colonies of Western honey bees, A. mellifera, in the mid-20th century. Despite all research and control efforts, it is still recognized as one of the major drivers of colony mortality today (Traynor et al., 2020). Even more damaging to bee health is the combination of Varroa and its vectored viruses (de Miranda & Genersch, 2010; Grozinger & Flenniken, 2019).","PeriodicalId":8783,"journal":{"name":"Bee World","volume":"4 1","pages":"14 - 16"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85688597","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Bee WorldPub Date : 2021-10-05DOI: 10.1080/0005772X.2021.1981677
N. Carreck, V. Dietemann, J. Ellis, J. Evans, P. Neumann, P. Chantawannakul
{"title":"The COLOSS BEEBOOK, a Manual of Standard Methods for Honey Bee Research","authors":"N. Carreck, V. Dietemann, J. Ellis, J. Evans, P. Neumann, P. Chantawannakul","doi":"10.1080/0005772X.2021.1981677","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0005772X.2021.1981677","url":null,"abstract":"The Vision The BEEBOOK project arose from discussions at early COLOSS (Prevention of Honey Bee COlony LOSSes) meetings. The vision was, and still is, to develop a definitive inventory of standard techniques and methods in honey bee research to ensure that studies performed by different laborato-ries around the world would be directly comparable. The manual, titled the COLOSS BEEBOOK , was inspired by publications with similar purposes for Drosophila fruit fly research (Williams et al., 2012). The previous lack of standards had made, for example, establishing whether honey bee colony losses had indeed increased, or were greater in some countries than in others, exceptionally difficult. The BEEBOOK is not meant to standardize the research itself, but focusses solely on the methods for which standardization is useful to enable reproducibility as a corner-stone of science. The BEEBOOK is a tool for all who want to conduct research on honey bees. It has been written in such a way that those new to honey bee research can use it to begin studies in fields with which they may not be familiar. the select and a user-friendly The initial divided into","PeriodicalId":8783,"journal":{"name":"Bee World","volume":"36 1","pages":"11 - 13"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87169525","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Bee WorldPub Date : 2021-08-17DOI: 10.1080/0005772x.2021.1956103
Helmut Käfer
{"title":"Wasps - The Astonishing Diversity of a Misunderstood Insect by Eric R. Eaton","authors":"Helmut Käfer","doi":"10.1080/0005772x.2021.1956103","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0005772x.2021.1956103","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":8783,"journal":{"name":"Bee World","volume":"65 1","pages":"143 - 143"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78948970","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}