Looking for the causes of and solutions to the issue of honey bee colony losses
2019
Stanimirović Zoran | Glavinić Uroš | Ristanić Marko | Aleksić Nevenka | Jovanović Nemanja | Vejnović Branislav | Stevanović Jevrosima
Colony losses, including those induced by the colony collapse disorder, are an urgent problem of contemporary apiculture which has been capturing the attention of both apiculturists and the research community. CCD is characterized by the absence of adult dead bees in the hive in which few workers and a queen remain, the ratio between the brood quantity and the number of workers is heavily disturbed in favor of the former, and more than enough food is present. Robbing behavior and pests usually attacking the weakened colony do not occur. In the present paper, the causes of the emergence of this problem are discussed, as well as the measures of its prevention.
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