Survey results of honey bee (<i>Apis mellifera</i>) colony losses in China (2010–2013)

Liu, Zhiguang; Chen, Chao; Niu, Qingsheng; Qi, Wenzhong; Yuan, Cunzhong; Su, Songkun; Liu, Shidong; Zhang, Yingsheng; Zhang, Xuewen; Ji, Ting; Rong-guo, Dai; Zhang, Zhong-Yin; Wang, Shunhai; Gao, Fuchao; Guo, Haiyang; Liang, Liping; Ding, Guowei; Shi, Wei

doi:10.1080/00218839.2016.1193375

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“…Worldwide increased (winter) mortality rates are observed among honey bees as well as solitary bees [2][3][4][5]. In the past, high winter mortality rates were reported for France for the winter of 1999-2000 [2,6], the USA [7,8], and more recently Belgium [4] and China [9]. Winter mortality of complete colonies is generally attributed to a complex combination of biological and environmental conditions, and poor apiary management.…”

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Multivariate Landscape Analysis of Honey Bee Winter Mortality in Wallonia, Belgium

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The European honey bee species (Apis mellifera L.) is under increasing pressure from anthropogenic and other stressors. Winter mortality of entire colonies is generally attributed to biological, environmental, and management conditions. The rates of winter mortality can vary extremely from place to place. A landscape approach is used here to examine the dependency between spatially distributed winter mortality rates, environmental and biological conditions, and apiary management. The analysis was applied to data for the region of Wallonia in Belgium with winter mortality rates obtained from the European project EPILOBEE. Potential explanatory variables were spatially allocated based on GIS analysis, and subjected to binomial linear regression to identify the most predominant variables related to bee winter mortality. The results point to infestation with Varroa, the number of frost days, the potential flying hours, the connectivity of the natural landscape, and the use of plant protection products as most dominant causes for the region of Wallonia. The outcomes of this study will help focus beekeeping and environmental management to improve bee health and the effectiveness of apiary practices. The approach surpasses application to the problem of bee mortality and could be used to compare and rank the causes of other environmental problems by their significance, particularly when these are interdependent and spatially differentiated.

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Multivariate Landscape Analysis of Honey Bee Winter Mortality in Wallonia, Belgium

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“…Forty percent of invertebrate pollinators are at risk of extinction, and even managed honey bee colonies have been dying at high rates for several decades [3,4,5,6,7]. Continued declines in pollinator health imperil global food security and economic stability.…”

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Queen Quality and the Impact of Honey Bee Diseases on Queen Health: Potential for Interactions between Two Major Threats to Colony Health

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Western honey bees, Apis mellifera, live in highly eusocial colonies that are each typically headed by a single queen. The queen is the sole reproductive female in a healthy colony, and because long-term colony survival depends on her ability to produce a large number of offspring, queen health is essential for colony success. Honey bees have recently been experiencing considerable declines in colony health. Among a number of biotic and abiotic factors known to impact colony health, disease and queen failure are repeatedly reported as important factors underlying colony losses. Surprisingly, there are relatively few studies on the relationship and interaction between honey bee diseases and queen quality. It is critical to understand the negative impacts of pests and pathogens on queen health, how queen problems might enable disease, and how both factors influence colony health. Here, we review the current literature on queen reproductive potential and the impacts of honey bee parasites and pathogens on queens. We conclude by highlighting gaps in our knowledge on the combination of disease and queen failure to provide a perspective and prioritize further research to mitigate disease, improve queen quality, and ensure colony health.

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“…As a result, the decline in honeybees has raised tremendous concern (Moritz et al 2010;vanEngelsdorp and Meixner 2010). As the result of an international effort called BPrevention of honey bee COlony LOSSes (COLOSS), a series of surveys have been conducted from around the globe toward understanding the situation of colony losses and elucidating possible causes, including Europe (Aston 2010;Charrière and Neumann 2010;Clermont et al 2014;Gajger et al 2010;Gray et al 2010;Hatjina et al 2010;Ivanova and Petrov 2010;Mutinelli et al 2010;Topolska et al 2010;Vejsnaes et al 2010;van der Zee 2010;van der Zee et al 2014), the USA Seitz et al 2015;Spleen et al 2013;Steinhauer et al 2014;vanEngelsdorp et al 2010), South Africa (Pirk et al 2014), China (Liu et al 2016;van der Zee et al 2012), and other areas (Brodschneider et al 2010;Currie et al 2010;van der Zee et al 2012). The mortalities reported were high in general, with 7-30% for Europe, 22.5-35.8% for the USA, 29.6% for Africa, and 3.3-12.6% for China.…”

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Managed honeybee colony losses of the Eastern honeybee (Apis cerana) in China (2011–2014)

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-Colony losses of managed honeybees have raised a major concern, and surveys of colony losses were conducted around the globe to understand the apicultural situation. Up to now, most studies have focused on the mortality of the Western honeybee (Apis mellifera ); however, little is known about the mortality of its eastern counterpart-the Eastern honeybee (Apis cerana ). Here, we report the survey results of A. cerana colony losses in three consecutive years (2011-2012, 2012-2013, and 2013-2014) in China. Colony losses were low overall (12.8%, 95% CI 11.9-13.7%) but varied among years, provinces, and types of apiaries. We used generalized linear mixed effects models to estimate the effects of possible risk factors and found that queen problems (queenless or dronelaying queens) were associated with colony losses. Further analyses showed that differences in mortality among different types of apiaries may be contributable to the differences in queen problems. This is the first survey of colony losses of A. cerana .

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Survey results of honey bee (Apis mellifera) colony losses in China (2010–2013)

Cited by 49 publications

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Multivariate Landscape Analysis of Honey Bee Winter Mortality in Wallonia, Belgium

Multivariate Landscape Analysis of Honey Bee Winter Mortality in Wallonia, Belgium

Queen Quality and the Impact of Honey Bee Diseases on Queen Health: Potential for Interactions between Two Major Threats to Colony Health

Managed honeybee colony losses of the Eastern honeybee (Apis cerana) in China (2011–2014)

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