Beekeeping from Antiquity Through the Middle Ages

Kritsky, Gene

doi:10.1146/annurev-ento-031616-035115

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“…This is consistent with the growing interest of the scientific community in understanding the underlying factors [ 12 , 20 , 22 , 54 ]. The higher incidence of spillover cases recorded in Europe, New Zealand, and the Americas may reflect their advances in research and apiculture compared to other regions [ 60 , 61 , 62 , 63 , 64 , 65 , 66 , 67 ].…”

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Pathogens Spillover from Honey Bees to Other Arthropods

2021

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Honey bees, and pollinators in general, play a major role in the health of ecosystems. There is a consensus about the steady decrease in pollinator populations, which raises global ecological concern. Several drivers are implicated in this threat. Among them, honey bee pathogens are transmitted to other arthropods populations, including wild and managed pollinators. The western honey bee, Apis mellifera, is quasi-globally spread. This successful species acted as and, in some cases, became a maintenance host for pathogens. This systematic review collects and summarizes spillover cases having in common Apis mellifera as the mainteinance host and some of its pathogens. The reports are grouped by final host species and condition, year, and geographic area of detection and the co-occurrence in the same host. A total of eighty-one articles in the time frame 1960–2021 were included. The reported spillover cases cover a wide range of hymenopteran host species, generally living in close contact with or sharing the same environmental resources as the honey bees. They also involve non-hymenopteran arthropods, like spiders and roaches, which are either likely or unlikely to live in close proximity to honey bees. Specific studies should consider host-dependent pathogen modifications and effects on involved host species. Both the plasticity of bee pathogens and the ecological consequences of spillover suggest a holistic approach to bee health and the implementation of a One Health approach.

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Pathogens Spillover from Honey Bees to Other Arthropods

2021

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“…Even though the history of apiculture in the Carpathian Basin during the last millennium has been most explicitly reviewed by Sötér (1908) and Szabadfalvi (1992), the oldest documents lack an accurate specification of the floral resources used. Therefore, whereas we know that forest beekeeping flourished during the Middle Ages in Eastern Europe's woodlands (Kritsky 2017), the exact date when the manufacturing of 'stubble honey' started in the Carpathian Basin is not known. Káldy- Nagy (1970) pointed out that in the sixteenth century, the Turkish occupants ordered the beekeepers that their beehive tax had to be shared between the lord of the residency and the lord of the land where beehives were placed at the time of blossom.…”

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Rise and fall of Stachys annua (L.) L. in the Carpathian Basin: a historical review and prospects for its revival

Pinke

Dunai

Czúcz

2021

Genet Resour Crop Evol

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Stachys annua (L.) L., a melliferous archaeophyte plant became a dominant weed of the cereal stubbles of the Carpathian Basin in the medieval three-field system. By the middle of the nineteenth century, this plant provided more than two-thirds of the Hungarian honey production, and its high quality monofloral honey turned into a characteristic brand of the Hungarian apiculture. Recognizing its importance, S. annua also briefly became a minor crop cultivated in “bee gardens” and arable fields in the late nineteenth century, possibly also in response to the first signs of its upcoming decline. Starting with the advent of the steam plough, the twentieth century has brought a drastic decline for S. annua due to a combination of deeper and earlier tillage operations, agrochemicals, and new competing weed species (in particular the common ragweed, Ambrosia artemisiifolia). The last remnant stands of this previously dominant weed species are of considerable ecological and historical value as farmland biodiversity hotspots. These sites are important refuge for rare weeds, wild pollinators (including bumblebees), and declining farmland birds, which could be targeted by eco-schemes under the European Union’s (EU’s) greening Common Agricultural Policy. The rediscovery of the cropping potential of S. annua and the development of an appropriate technology would also allow its cultivation as a valuable bee forage, catch crop, green cover, or oilseed plant in the future.

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“…Dada sua importância na natureza, o homem faz o manejo de enxames de abelha há muitos anos, a evidência mais antiga do uso de produtos apícolas data de 7.000 a 8.000 anos, em pinturas rupestres na Espanha, que retratam colhedores de mel suspensos em escadas e cordas, enquanto colhem o favo de mel (CRANE, 1999). Porém, o manejo sofisticado de abelhas só se tem registros com os egípcios por volta de 2.450 a.C. (KRITSKY, 2017).…”

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Identificação de Perdas por Meio do Sistema Toyota de Produção: Um Estudo de Caso em um Apiário

Ziegler¹,

Ueda

Souza³

et al. 2020

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RESUMOO Sistema Toyota de Produção (STP) é uma metodologia para formular ações gerenciais de melhoria em sistemas de produção. Dentro desse sistema, uma etapa é a eliminação de perdas nos processos produtivos, técnica conhecida como a identificação das sete perdas. Em sistemas produtivos simples, como empresas produtoras de mel, apiários, normalmente não são elaboradas técnicas de melhoramento, devido principalmente ao pequeno tamanho dessas empresas e serem apenas atividades de complemento de renda a pequenos agricultores. Porém, a produção de mel representa uma das atividades que fornece grandes oportunidades para a agricultura familiar. Com isso, o objetivo desse estudo de caso é identificar as perdas por meio do Sistema Toyota de Produção em um apiário e realizar as proposições de melhorias. A justificativa do estudo consiste em melhorar o sistema produtivo de um apiário para aumentar a lucratividade dessa empresa e servir de exemplo para outras empresas produtoras de mel, a utilizar o STP para melhorar seu sistema produtivo. As perdas identificadas são principalmente relacionadas ao transporte, movimentação, estoque e espera, uma das sugestões é minimizar a distância entre as colmeias e o entreposto, as outras sugestões estão dispostas mais detalhadas no estudo.Palavras-chave: Sistema Toyota de Produção. Identificação de Perdas. Apiário. Apicultura. ABSTRACTThe Toyota Production System (STP) is a standard for managerial actions to improve production systems. Close up system, one face for the exhaustion processes in product processes, technological software with the identification of seven loss. In simple production systems, honey-producing companies, their own, usually do not elaborate breeding techniques, have their origins, and are just supplementary income activities. However, honey production represents one of the activities that provides the greatest opportunities for family farming. With this, the study of the theme is used as loss through the Toyota Production system in an apiary and perform as propositions for improvements. The justification for the method is to improve the productive system of a program to increase the profitability of a company and to serve as an example for other energy producing companies, such as STP for its production system. The losses are related to the transport, the movement, the stock and the wait, the output of videos is minimal between the colias and the warehouse.

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Beekeeping from Antiquity Through the Middle Ages

Cited by 56 publications

References 36 publications

Pathogens Spillover from Honey Bees to Other Arthropods

Pathogens Spillover from Honey Bees to Other Arthropods

Rise and fall of Stachys annua (L.) L. in the Carpathian Basin: a historical review and prospects for its revival

Identificação de Perdas por Meio do Sistema Toyota de Produção: Um Estudo de Caso em um Apiário

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