How Honey Bee Colonies Survive in the Wild: Testing the Importance of Small Nests and Frequent Swarming

Crowding honeybee colonies in apiaries can increase their vulnerability to the deadly ectoparasite Varroa destructor

(2015) Thomas D. Seeley et al.   APIDOLOGIE

Museum samples reveal rapid evolution by wild honey bees exposed to a novel parasite

(2015) Alexander S. Mikheyev et al.   Nature Communications

High Varroa mite abundance influences chemical profiles of worker bees and mite-host preferences

(2014) R. Cervo et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Standard methods for varroa research

(2013) Vincent Dietemann et al.   JOURNAL OF APICULTURAL RESEARCH

Colony fissioning in honey bees: size and significance of the swarm fraction

(2012) J. Rangel et al.   INSECTES SOCIAUX

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

(2012) Coby van Dooremalen et al.   PLoS One

Global Honey Bee Viral Landscape Altered by a Parasitic Mite

(2012) S. J. Martin et al.   SCIENCE

Dynamics of Persistent and Acute Deformed Wing Virus Infections in Honey Bees, Apis mellifera

(2011) Gennaro Di Prisco et al.   Viruses-Basel

A case control study and a survey on mortalities of honey bee colonies (Apis mellifera) in France during the winter of 2005–6

(2010) Marie-Pierre Chauzat et al.   JOURNAL OF APICULTURAL RESEARCH

Declines of managed honey bees and beekeepers in Europe

(2010) Simon G Potts et al.   JOURNAL OF APICULTURAL RESEARCH

Colony losses, managed colony population decline, and Colony Collapse Disorder in the United States

(2010) James D. Ellis et al.   JOURNAL OF APICULTURAL RESEARCH

Socialized medicine: Individual and communal disease barriers in honey bees

(2009) Jay D. Evans et al.   JOURNAL OF INVERTEBRATE PATHOLOGY

A Survey of Honey Bee Colony Losses in the U.S., Fall 2007 to Spring 2008

(2008) Dennis vanEngelsdorp et al.   PLoS One