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A 10 year survey of acaricide residues in beeswax analysed in Italy

scientific article published in October 2015

A 3-year survey of Italian honey bee-collected pollen reveals widespread contamination by agricultural pesticides

scientific article published on 29 September 2017

A Europe-Wide Experiment for Assessing the Impact of Genotype-Environment Interactions on the Vitality and Performance of Honey Bee Colonies: Experimental Design and Trait Evaluation

A review of methods used in some European countries for assessing the quality of honey bee queens through their physical characters and the performance of their colonies

scientific article published on 03 July 2014

Acaricide residues in beeswax after conversion to organic beekeeping methods

scientific article published in 2008

Authoritative subspecies diagnosis tool for European honey bees based on ancestry informative SNPs

scientific article published on 03 February 2021

Bee breeding and genetics in Europe

scientific article published on 02 April 2015

Chemical Communication in the Honey Bee Society

scholarly article published 22 January 2014

Chemical Communication in the Honey Bee Society

Complex population structure and haplotype patterns in the Western European honey bee from sequencing a large panel of haploid drones

scientific article published on 11 June 2022

Design and Planning of a Transdisciplinary Investigation into Farmland Pollinators: Rationale, Co-Design, and Lessons Learned

Differences in colony phenotypes across different origins and locations: evidence for genotype by environment interactions in the Italian honeybee (Apis mellifera ligustica)?

scientific article published on 26 April 2012

Distribution of infectious and parasitic agents among three sentinel bee species across European agricultural landscapes

scientific article published in 2024

Effect of genotype and environment on parasite and pathogen levels in one apiary—a case study

Effects of genotype, environment, and their interactions on honey bee health in Europe.

scientific article

Emerging threats and opportunities to managed bee species in European agricultural systems: a horizon scan

scientific article published in 2023

Estimating the density of honeybee colonies across their natural range to fill the gap in pollinator decline censuses.

scientific article

Evaluation of Suppressed Mite Reproduction (SMR) Reveals Potential for Varroa Resistance in European Honey Bees (Apis mellifera L.).

scientific article published on 03 September 2020

Evaluation of Two Commonly Used Field Tests to Assess Varroa destructor Infestation on Honey Bee (Apis mellifera) Colonies

scientific article published on 14 May 2021

Geographical Distribution and Selection of European Honey Bees Resistant to <i>Varroa destructor</i>

scientific article published on 08 December 2020

Image recognition using convolutional neural networks for classification of honey bee subspecies

scientific article published in 2022

Impact of landscape configuration and composition on pollinator communities across different European biogeographic regions

scientific article published in 2023

Intra-specific variation in sensitivity of Bombus terrestris and Osmia bicornis to three pesticides

scientific article published on 15 October 2022

Metabolism and upper thermal limits of Apis mellifera carnica and A. m. ligustica

scientific article published on November 2014

Modeling honey yield, defensive and swarming behaviors of Italian honey bees (Apis mellifera ligustica) using linear-threshold approaches

scientific article published on 21 October 2019

Monitoring bee health in European agro-ecosystems using wing morphology and fat bodies

scientific article

Negative correlation between Nosema ceranae spore loads and deformed wing virus infection levels in adult honey bee workers

scientific article

Observation by microsatellite DNA analysis of sperm usage in naturally mated honeybee queens (<i>Apis mellifera ligustica</i>) over a period of two years

scientific article published on 13 February 2010

Occurrence of parasites and pathogens in honey bee colonies used in a European genotype-environment interactions experiment

Pesticide use negatively affects bumble bees across European landscapes

scientific article published on 29 November 2023

Population dynamics of European honey bee genotypes under sdifferent environmental conditions

Screening of natural compounds for the control of nosema disease in honeybees (Apis mellifera)

Standard methods for maintaining adultApis melliferain cages underin vitrolaboratory conditions

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Swarming, defensive and hygienic behaviour in honey bee colonies of different genetic origin in a pan-European experiment

The genetic origin of honey bee colonies used in the COLOSS Genotype-Environment Interactions Experiment: a comparison of methods

The influence of genetic origin and its interaction with environmental effects on the survival of Apis mellifera L. colonies in Europe

Toxicity of destruxins against the parasitic mite Varroa destructor and its host Apis mellifera

Variations in Nutritional Requirements Across Bee Species

scientific article published in 2022