10 years of coordinated study of honey bee colony loss rates – presentation of a COLOSS core project

COLOSS Monitoring Group , ed. (2018) 10 years of coordinated study of honey bee colony loss rates – presentation of a COLOSS core project. In: EurBee 8, 8th Congress of Apidology, 2018-09-18 - 2018-09-20. (In Press)

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Abstract

The COLOSS history of collecting and analyzing data on honey bee colony losses extends back to 2009, when a coordinated approach involving twelve European countries was undertaken to better understand colony losses. This group developed a standardized questionnaire to ask beekeepers about their hive management and overwintering success.