A One-Health Model for Reversing Honeybee (Apis mellifera L.) Decline

Donkersley, Philip; Elsner-Adams, Emily; Maderson, Siobhan

doi:10.3390/vetsci7030119

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“…Beekeeping is a hobby and industry that shows significant growth in Japan. It is therefore important to investigate whether the same factors that have impacted pollinator fitness in the rest of the world [10]. Identifying land uses and plant species that support the fitness of A. cerana japonica may be key in maintaining the success of both urban and rural commercial and hobbyist beekeepers, as their numbers continue to grow.…”

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“…In a landscape context, pollinator activity shifts depending on the pollinator species' forage preferences, and the nutritional value of the pollen [8,9]. Pollinator fitness may effectively be determined by land use change, in combination with other significant factors [10]. These effects have only recently begun to be incorporated into the conservation literature, where papers highlight the importance of landscape heterogeneity, trees, matrix effects, habitat loss and fragmentation on pollinator diversity and success [11][12][13].…”

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Japanese Honeybees (Apis Cerana Japonica Radoszkowski, 1877) May Be Resilient to Land Use Change

Donkersley¹,

Covell²,

Ota³

2021

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Pollinators are being threatened globally by urbanisation and agricultural intensification, driven by a growing human population. Honeybees are part of a wide suite of insect pollinators with a global distribution. Understanding the impacts of landscape change and other influencing factors on pollinators is critical to ensuring food security and ecological stability. Remote sensing data on land use attributes have previously linked honeybee nutrition to land use in the Western Honeybee (Apis mellifera L.). Our study presents preliminary data comparing forage (honey and pollen) with land use across a rural-urban gradient from 22 sites in Kyushu, Southern Japan. Honey samples were collected from managed hives between June 2018 and August 2019. Pollen were collected and biotyped from hives in urban and rural locations (n = 5). Previous studies of western honeybee honey shows substantial variation in monosaccharide content. Our analysis of A. cerana japonica honey found very little variation in glucose and fructose (which accounted for 97% of monosaccharides), despite substantial differences in surrounding forage composition. As expected, we observed temporal variation in pollen foraged by A. cerana japonica, likely dependent on flowering phenology. These results suggest that A. cerana japonica may be resilient previously observed negative effects of urban land use on pollinator nutrition. We suggest this effect could be due to differences in urban green infrastructure in Japan, or due to an adaptation by A. cerana japonica to their surroundings, meaning landscape change may not be as detrimental to A. cerana japonica as has been observed elsewhere in the world.

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Japanese Honeybees (Apis Cerana Japonica Radoszkowski, 1877) May Be Resilient to Land Use Change

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Covell²,

Ota³

2021

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“…In this study, we report the characteristics of the beekeepers participating as citizen scientists, their reasons for volunteering, their assessment of difficulty of different tasks required for participation and colony-related problems occurring during the project. As the citizen science project dealt with environmental topics including intensively discussed possible drivers of honey bee decline (Goulson et al 2015;Donkersley et al 2020;Hristov et al 2020), we asked beekeepers to rank areas where they expect impact of the project. We finally asked beekeepers about the time budget they voluntarily invested for sampling.…”

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How and why beekeepers participate in the INSIGNIA citizen science honey bee environmental monitoring project

Gratzer

Brodschneider

2021

Environ Sci Pollut Res

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In the “contributory” citizen science project INSIGNIA, beekeepers carried out non-invasive sampling of their own honey bee colonies for an environmental investigation of pesticide residues and pollen plant origin. We surveyed several traits and attitudes of 69 of the volunteering beekeepers from ten countries. We found that their motivation was similar to that found in previous studies of environmental volunteer motivation, with helping the environment and contributing to scientific knowledge being strong motivators. Our results suggest that receiving laboratory analysis results of the samples from their colonies is the most meaningful way of appreciation for beekeepers, but is not their primary reason for participation. A citizen scientist beekeeper in this study spent on average 10.4 working hours on the project during a sampling season. Our study indicates that most of our volunteers would participate in similar future investigations, or would recommend participation to other beekeepers, underlining the potential of beekeepers as citizen scientists in honey bee research.

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“…The collected data provide information to enhance the management practices using different criteria. They allow taking a holistic approach to re-establish the balance of colonies according to the “One Health” concept, which is the basis for a healthy bee population and for the sustainable apiculture, as well as safety and security of bee products [ 9 , 10 , 28 ].…”

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Bee Health and Productivity in Apis mellifera, a Consequence of Multiple Factors

Olate-Olave

Verde

Vallejos

et al. 2021

Veterinary Sciences

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Managed honeybees play an important role as pollinators. The health and nutritional condition of honeybee colonies (Apis mellifera L.) depends for an important part on management practices, and it is influenced by multiple factors. This study aims to identify the stressors that lead to the loss of honeybee health and its consequences on the colony’s productivity. Different aspects related to management practices, productivity, clinical observations related to diseases, presence of sanitary gaps in the apiaries, colony strength, weather and infestation rates by Varroa sp. mites were measured. The information was collected during two monitoring in 53 apiaries in the Province of Santa Fe, Argentina. The results show correlations among many of the management practices, health condition and yield. The most important factors affecting the productivity of the studied honeybee colonies were nuclei preparation, the number of combs in the brood chamber, change of bee queen, disinfection of beekeeping material, among other less significant ones. Although honey production is important in the region, the colony strength was deficient and inadequate during both monitoring. Due to its dependence on management by the beekeeper, it is suggested that a holistic approach could improve bee health, increasing the productivity of honeybees.

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A One-Health Model for Reversing Honeybee (Apis mellifera L.) Decline

Cited by 21 publications

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Japanese Honeybees (Apis Cerana Japonica Radoszkowski, 1877) May Be Resilient to Land Use Change

Japanese Honeybees (Apis Cerana Japonica Radoszkowski, 1877) May Be Resilient to Land Use Change

How and why beekeepers participate in the INSIGNIA citizen science honey bee environmental monitoring project

Bee Health and Productivity in Apis mellifera, a Consequence of Multiple Factors

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