Winter Survival of Individual Honey Bees and Honey Bee Colonies Depends on Level of Varroa destructor Infestation

C Van Dooremalen, L Gerritsen, B Cornelissen… - PloS one, 2012 - journals.plos.org
… treated lacked data in March and April due to mortality of these colonies. To be able to use the
… Apistan) on honeybee colonies parasitized by V. destructor, where type of one-story hives, …

[HTML][HTML] Modelling seasonal effects of temperature and precipitation on honey bee winter mortality in a temperate climate

M Switanek, K Crailsheim, H Truhetz… - Science of the Total …, 2017 - Elsevier
… Our analysis and modelled results show higher winter mortality for colonies across Austria
when the preceding months are, on average, warmer and drier. The month of February is the …

Investigating the role of landscape composition on honey bee colony winter mortality: A long-term analysis

S Kuchling, I Kopacka, E Kalcher-Sommersguter… - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
… of land cover on colony winter mortality in Austria with a much larger dataset for six
consecutive years, including two winters with high losses and one winter with a very low loss rate. …

[HTML][HTML] Comparison of apiculture and winter mortality of honey bee colonies (Apis mellifera) in Austria and Czechia

R Brodschneider, J Brus, J Danihlík - Agriculture, Ecosystems & …, 2019 - Elsevier
… , we monitored winter losses of honey bee colonies and also … Numbers of beekeepers and
colonies, colony density and … Winter loss rates of honey bee colonies ranged from 8.1% to …

Risk indicators affecting honeybee colony survival in Europe: one year of surveillance

MP Chauzat, A Jacques, M Laurent, S Bougeard… - Apidologie, 2016 - Springer
… The empirical threshold of 10 % was considered acceptable in this paper for European winter
honeybee colony mortality by the EPILOBEE consortium. Indeed, in some areas of Europe …

Effects of wintering environment and parasite–pathogen interactions on honey bee colony loss in north temperate regions

SD Desai, RW Currie - PloS one, 2016 - journals.plos.org
… parasites and pathogens on winter mortality under indoor and … predict their impact on colony
survival over winter. The outcome … and thus reduce winter mortality of honey bee colonies or …

Timing of production of winter bees in honey bee (Apis mellifera) colonies

HR Mattila, JL Harris, GW Otis - Insectes Sociaux, 2001 - Springer
mortality over the winter months. Physiological changes accompany the increased longevity
of … Honeybee colony integration: worker-worker interactions mediate hormonally regulated …

The German bee monitoring project: a long term study to understand periodically high winter losses of honey bee colonies

E Genersch, W Von Der Ohe, H Kaatz, A Schroeder… - Apidologie, 2010 - apidologie.org
… management on winter losses of honeybee colonies. … the chances of the colonies to stay
alive over winter. Following these … bee colonies but will definitely reduce colony winter mortality. …

Parasites, depredators, and limited resources as potential drivers of winter mortality of feral honeybee colonies in German forests

PL Kohl, B Rutschmann, LG Sikora, N Wimmer… - Oecologia, 2023 - Springer
… Study regions and feral honeybee colonies We considered observations of winter
mortality/survival of feral honeybee colonies inhabiting managed forests dominated by beech (Fagus …

The Natural Incidence of Acarapis Woodi (Rennie) and the Winter Mortality of Honeybee Colonies

L Bailey - Bee World, 1961 - Taylor & Francis
… The numbers of honeybee colonies near Harpenden which started winter with the indicated
percentages of bees infested with Acarapis woodi and (in brackets) the numbers of colonies