The western honey bee, a pollinator species that is essential for modern agriculture and food production sustainability, is under various anthropogenic pressures.

Invasive, alien plants and pollinators have varying effects on their interaction partners, ranging from highly beneficial to strongly detrimental.

Honey bee (Apis mellifera L.) health is increasingly threatened by pathogens, yet little is known about their circulation in clinically healthy, closely monitored colonies. We screened 820 adult bees from 22 colonies in Northern Greece.

In the present study a fast and reliable cold vapor atomic absorbance method was developed and validated for the determination of mercury in four beehive matrices (honey, pollen, propolis and bees) from Greece.

Geographic Information Systems techniques can be used to link beekeeping and tourism for the development of priority sites for shared activity.

Insecticides are thought to be among the major factors contributing to current declines in bee populations. However, detoxification mechanisms in healthy, unstressed honey bees are poorly characterised.

Bees and other insect pollinators are taking more and more relevance in the public debate. European authorities now recognise the environmental risks that pollinators face and the need for institutional action.

In a favourable agro-ecological and socio-economical context, the development of beekeeping in Laos faces an important strategic choice: the introduction of the exogenous species Apis mellifera or the slow development of the actual beekeeping with endogenous species Apis cerana and Trigona laeviceps.

Microsporidium Nosema ceranae is well known for exerting a negative impact on honey bee health, including down-regulation of immunoregulatory genes.

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