Our overview mainly focuses on aspects of diet and metabolism in larvae and adults, and on the physiology of digestion.

We examined the consumption rate of protein diets in caged and free-flying honey bees, amino acid composition of diets, and diet effects on gland development.

The bacterial communities of bee bread possibly exhibit beneficial roles for honeybees such as polysaccharide degradation and nitrogen fixing.

Melissococcus plutonius is a pathogenic bacterium affecting immature stages of the western honey bee and leads to European foulbrood disease.

As an agonist of the acetylcholine receptor, it attacks the insect nervous system and is extremely effective against various sucking and mining pests

Inter-colony distance of Apis mellifera significantly affects colony numbers of the parasitic mite Varroa destructor.

Among insects, the Western honey bee (Apis mellifera) is a promising model for studying these dynamics, given its long history of domestication and importance in agriculture.

A path for rational discoveries in apitherapy. Scientific based evidence supporting the nutritional, physiological and health claims of bee products.

In the early 1980's the infamous Africanised honeybees, or killer bees, were spreading through South America.

We determined the efficacy of the natural chemical oxalic acid (OA) in killing phoretic mites on adult worker bees under field conditions in southern England.