Pub Date : 2023-04-03DOI: 10.1080/0005772X.2023.2206249
L. N. Morgado, A. Marques, Luís Filipe Martins Amaro Ramada Souto
Introduction Beekeeping is an important agricultural activity that encompasses production and marketing of bee products, sanity and welfare of honey bees (Apis mellifera Linnaeus, 1758), and the pollination favor and increase of various botanical species. Data indicate that 76% of food products produced in Europe depend on bees pollination, with an estimated economic value of 14.2 million Euros (Rossi, 2017). However, in recent years scientists and beekeepers have warned about the decline of bees, colony losses, and the decrease of pollinators in nature, especially in environmental agroecosystems. Possible causes for this decline could include intensive agriculture and monoculture, use of pesticides, climate changes, habitat losses, and diseases.
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Why Beekeeping? It is well known that honey bees are essential to human existence not only through their direct products such as honey and beeswax, but also through pollination services. Worldwide, the value of this insect species, as the second most economically important livestock, is estimated over US$180 billion annually (Jacobs et al., 2006; Porto et al., 2020). In Ethiopia, small-scale beekeeping has a long history and been practiced in almost all regions of the country. In Tigray, beekeeping is one of the most important income-generating agricultural activities, supporting poverty alleviation efforts and creating employment opportunities for many people in rural and urban areas. According to the regional emergency response plan (BoARD, 2021), there are over 58,000 beekeepers in Tigray, who generate income from the sale of honey, beeswax and bee colonies, which cover various expenses such as school fees for their children. Beehive products such as honey also greatly contribute to food and nutrition security and medical care in the local communities.
{"title":"Tigray War Put Honey Bees in Peril","authors":"Haftom Gebremedhn Ngussie, Teweldemedhn Gebretinsae Hailu","doi":"10.1080/0005772X.2023.2201086","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0005772X.2023.2201086","url":null,"abstract":"Why Beekeeping? It is well known that honey bees are essential to human existence not only through their direct products such as honey and beeswax, but also through pollination services. Worldwide, the value of this insect species, as the second most economically important livestock, is estimated over US$180 billion annually (Jacobs et al., 2006; Porto et al., 2020). In Ethiopia, small-scale beekeeping has a long history and been practiced in almost all regions of the country. In Tigray, beekeeping is one of the most important income-generating agricultural activities, supporting poverty alleviation efforts and creating employment opportunities for many people in rural and urban areas. According to the regional emergency response plan (BoARD, 2021), there are over 58,000 beekeepers in Tigray, who generate income from the sale of honey, beeswax and bee colonies, which cover various expenses such as school fees for their children. Beehive products such as honey also greatly contribute to food and nutrition security and medical care in the local communities.","PeriodicalId":8783,"journal":{"name":"Bee World","volume":"11 1","pages":"51 - 55"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81951488","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-04-03DOI: 10.1080/0005772x.2023.2198281
O. Van Laere, D. D. de Graaf
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Pub Date : 2023-02-08DOI: 10.1080/0005772X.2023.2166736
J. Brito, Vanessa Silva Paiva, Jeferson Rosa Martins, Denise de Oliveira Scoaris
Introduction The word Candida goes back to the traditional white robes worn by Roman candidates (candidatus) running for public office. The term albicans is derived from another Latin word albico/albicatus, meaning “to be white” or “bordering on white.” Basically, the term Candida albicans is redundant and means “to be white” (Hellstein & Marek, 2019). Candida species are part of the normal microbiota of healthy people. There are about 200 species, of which only 10% are considered etiologic agents. They live as commensals but are opportunistic microorganisms. People with weakened immune systems tend to have aggressive manifestations. Several factors contribute to fungal infections, including: Disruption of skin and mucosal barriers, neutrophil dysfunction, disruption of cell-mediated immunity, metabolic disorders, long-term treatment with antibiotics, chemotherapy, transplantation, resistance to antifungal drugs, and others (Pfaller & Diekema, 2007).
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Pub Date : 2023-01-11DOI: 10.1080/0005772x.2023.2165289
D. D. de Graaf
At the beginning of 2022, the International Bee Research Association (IBRA) donated its Historical Collection to the Eva Crane Trust (ECT). It covers numerous objects related to beekeeping that Dr Eva Crane collected during her many travels in the post-war period. In this way, the collection is now under the management of the charity that bears the name of the person who collected the objects. In recent decades, the historical collection has roamed around numerous Flemish institutions under the impulse of Emeritus Professor Octaaf Van Laere, always with the good intention of taking care of this heritage. In the last period from 2014–2022, the collection was housed in the beekeeping museum in Kalmthout, where a small part of the collection was also exhibited. Due to renovation works in Kalmthout, the collection had to be stored elsewhere by May 2022.
2022年初，国际蜜蜂研究协会(IBRA)将其历史藏品捐赠给了伊娃·克莱恩信托基金(ECT)。它涵盖了许多与养蜂有关的物品，这些物品是伊娃·克莱恩博士在战后的许多旅行中收集的。通过这种方式，这些藏品现在由慈善机构管理，该慈善机构以收集这些物品的人的名字命名。近几十年来，在名誉教授Octaaf Van Laere的推动下，历史收藏在众多佛兰德机构中漫游，始终怀着照顾这一遗产的良好意图。在2014年至2022年的最后一段时间里，这些藏品被安置在卡尔姆图特的养蜂博物馆，在那里也展出了一小部分藏品。由于卡尔姆图特的翻新工程，这些藏品必须在2022年5月之前存放在其他地方。
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Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/0005772X.2023.2166738
R. A. Calderón-Fallas, L. Sánchez-Chaves
Introduction The small hive beetle (SHB), Aethina tumida Murray (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae), is a parasite and scavenger of honey bee (Apis mellifera) colonies endemic to sub-Saharan Africa (Hepburn & Radloff, 1998). It has become an invasive species with well-established populations in North America and Australia (Neumann & Ellis, 2008). In 1996, SHBs were discovered in colonies of European subspecies of honey bees in the southeastern USA (Elzen et al., 1999). SHBs cause considerable economic damage to apiculture in the USA (Hood, 2004; Neumann & Elzen, 2004) and Australia (Spiewok et al., 2007).
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Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/0005772X.2022.2147702
M. Guichard, F. Phocas, M. Neuditschko, B. Basso, B. Dainat
Introduction For beekeepers it is often difficult to empirically estimate the impact of genetics and selection on honey bee performance. This difficulty—encountered by all breeders of domesticated species—is even greater in the case of honey bees, due to their complex biology and reproduction. Thus, beekeepers can be divided into enthusiasts and sceptics: the former rely primarily on selective breeding as means of improving honey bee performance, while the latter prefer to use other levers for achieving their aims. To support beekeepers to distinguish between the improvements that can be achieved in honey bee performance through selection and those that can be achieved through animal husbandry approaches (e.g., colony management and treatments), a summary of useful concepts in honey bee genetics and their use in breeding is presented and illustrated by the example of two Swiss honey bee populations.
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