Summary

Characterization of α-amylase from mandarin orange honey

Takeshi Nagai, Reiji Inoue, Nobutaka Suzuki, Yasuhiro Tanoue and Norihisa Kai

Pollen Spectra of Natural Honey Samples from a Coastal District of Orissa, India

Debasis Upadhyay and Subir Bera

Composition and antioxidant activity of honey from Africanized and stingless bees in Alagoas (Brazil): a multivariate analysis

Alysson Wagner Fernandes Duarte, Maria Raphaella dos Santos Vasconcelos, Adriana Pereira Domarques de Menezes, Silvio Chagas da Silva, Melissa Oda-souza and Ana Maria Queijeiro López

Physicochemical and microbiological properties of longan, bitter bush, sunflower and litchi honeys produced by Apis mellifera in Northern Thailand

Chonlapin Wanjai, Kanokwan Sringarm, Choochad Santasup, Surutwadee Pak-Uthai and Panuwan Chantawannakul

Chemical and biological properties of honey from Thai stingless bee (Tetragonula leaviceps)

Kornkanok Suntiparapop, Panjai Prapaipong and Panuwan Chantawannakul

Effects of pollen and artificial diets on the hypopharyngeal glands of newly hatched bees (Apis mellifera L.)

Yan Peng, Mario D’Antuono and Rob Manning

Computer-assisted digital image analysis and evaluation of brood development in honey bee combs

Lukas Jeker, Lukas Schmid, Thomas Meschberger, Marco Candolfi, Stefan Pudenz and Josef P Magyar

Success rates for instrumental insemination of carbon dioxide and nitrogen anaesthetised honey bee (Apis mellifera) queens

Bożena Chuda-Mickiewicz, Krystyna Czekońska, Jerzy Samborski and Piotr Rostecki

Flowering of twoArctium L. species and their significance as a source of pollen for visiting insects

Anna Wróblewska and Ernest Stawiarz

Preventive and antimicrobial activities of alkoxysilane against the American foulbrood pathogenPaenibacillus larvaein Apis mellifera L.

Aslı Özkırım and Aygün Yalçınkaya

Physiological susceptibility and hygienic behaviour affect chalkbrood disease incidence in worker and drone larvae in honey bees (Apis mellifera L.)

Ciro Invernizzi

Managed honey bee colony losses in Canada, China, Europe, Israel and Turkey, for the winters of 2008-9 and 2009-10

Romée van der Zee, Lennard Pisa, Sreten Andonov, Robert Brodschneider, Jean-Daniel Charrière, Róbert Chlebo, Mary F Coffey, Karl Crailsheim, Bjørn Dahle, Anna Gajda, Alison Gray, Marica M Drazic, Mariano Higes, Lassi Kauko, Aykut Kence, Meral Kence, Nicola Kezic, Hrisula Kiprijanovska, Jasna Kralj, Preben Kristiansen, Raquel Martin Hernandez, Franco Mutinelli, Bach Kim Nguyen, Christoph Otten, Asli Özkırım, Stephen F Pernal, MagnusPeterson, Gavin Ramsay, Violeta Santrac, Victoria Soroker, Grażyna Topolska, Aleksandar Uzunov, Flemming Vejsnæs, Shi Wei and Selwyn Wilkins

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A national survey of managed honey bee 2010-11 winter colony losses in the USA: results from the Bee Informed Partnership

Dennis vanEngelsdorp, Dewey Caron, Jerry Hayes, Robyn Underwood, Mark Henson, Karen Rennich, Angela Spleen, Michael Andree, Robert Snyder, Kathleen Lee, Karen Roccasecca, Michael Wilson, James Wilkes, Eugene Lengerich, Jeffery Pettis, the Bee Informed Partnership

Open Access

Review Article

Varroa destructor: research avenues towards sustainable control

Vincent Dietemann, Jochen Pflugfelder, Denis Anderson, Jean-Daniel Charrière, Nor Chejanovsky, Benjamin Dainat, Joachim de Miranda, Keith Delaplane, Franz-Xaver Dillier, Stefan Fuch, Peter Gallmann, Laurent Gauthier, Anton Imdorf, Nikolaus Koeniger, Jasna Kralj, William Meikle, Jeff Pettis, Peter Rosenkranz, Diana Sammataro, Deborah Smith, Orlando Yañez and Peter Neumann

Open Access

Notes & Comments

The incidence of three honey bee viruses in collapsing colonies in Guatemala

Patricia Landaverde, Natalia Escobedo, Claudia Calderón, Eunice Enríquez and Carlota Monroy

Adult honey bees (Apis mellifera) with deformed wings discovered in confirmed varroa-free colonies

Eva Forsgren, Ingemar Fries and Joachim R. de Miranda

Frequency and both spatial and temporal distribution ofAcarapis woodi in honey bees (Apis mellifera) in five Mexico City localities from 2002 to 2005

Nájera C Ramírez, Benítez A Correa, López J A Romero and Maya J Martínez

A clinical case of honey bee intoxication after using coumaphos strips againstVarroa destructor

Aleš Gregorc

Temporal genetic analysis of an introgressed island honey bee population (Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain)

Irene Muñoz, Mª Jesús Madrid-Jiménez and Pilar De la Rúa

Ovariole number and ovary activation of Russian honeybee workers (Apis mellifera L.)

Michael Munday, Thomas E Rinderer and Olav Rueppell