Practices and Strategies for Sustainable Apiculture and Pollinators

Dear Colleagues,

Sustainable apiculture is currently one of the most dynamically developing agricultural disciplines. New techniques, methods, and strategies for working with bees and protecting them on crops are constantly emerging.

This Special Issue aims to bring together advances in beekeeping that enable honeybees and other pollinators to function in changing agricultural conditions. Changing beekeeping is based on new methods of prevention and treatment. In addition, changes in apiary management include the development of IT techniques and artificial intelligence. Factors affecting pollinators include various pesticides, monocultures, loss of biodiversity, etc. Changes in beekeeping related to climate change and the structure of plant cultivation are also important. Research is being carried out on changes in the physiology, behavior, and expression of selected genes in honey bees to determine the degree of impact of the agricultural environment on their bodies. In addition, agricultural practices that enable the safe presence of pollinators on crops are often advisable. Agricultural practices that support pollinators include constantly emerging new bee benefits, sustainable use of plant protection products, and post-harvest plant cultivation. Part of the land area is also left for organic crops or strips of pollinator-friendly plants. Both of these fields, beekeeping and agriculture, should support each other and are looking for pollinator-friendly solutions, including honey bees.

Dr. Paweł Migdał
Guest Editor

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• sustainable apiculture
• pollinators
• honey bee
• pesticides
• pollinator physiology
• behavior and gene expression
• agricultural stressors