It Will Be Hard to Find Honey Bees in This Issue!

Bee World • VOL 98 • September 2021 • Page 73 © 2021 International Bee Research Association. It Will Be Hard to Find Honey Bees in This Issue! One important landmark decision I have been undecided about since I became the editor of Bee World is the scope of species that should be included in the journal. We have discussed this on the editorial board in recent years, but also did not come to a conclusion. “[Bee World] welcomes submissions on all aspects of beekeeping and all species of bees worldwide” is written in the aims and scope section on the Taylor and Francis journal website. Actually, no one remembers who established this. Beekeeping and beekeepers are also explicitly mentioned in this text, but this should be clear, although Bee World is not, and has not been in its now 102-year-long history, a beekeeping magazine. Nevertheless, it is clear that articles on all species of the genus Apis and all species that cause diseases in or parasitize bees, or are in any other form associated with representatives of this genus, have permission to be presented in this journal – including humans! In contrast to the younger sibling publication IBRA, the Journal of Apicultural Research (JAR, happy 60th volume by the way!) more directly refers to the management of bee colonies of the genus Apis by using the word ‘apiculture’ in their title, though the “Api-” could also be interpreted as referring to the major group of Apoidea. Nevertheless, the suffix culture directly hints toward managed bees.