Apiculture and Challenges for Future

Dear Colleagues,

Honey bees play an essential role in maintaining ecosystems and food production on a global scale. However, there are a growing number of risk factors that beekeeping faces today that should be addressed by the scientific community. Among these challenges, the consequences of climate change and globalization, affecting the survival of bee colonies, and beehive product supply are particularly important. Global warming is responsible for the displacement of some plant and animal species as well as changes in the flowering patterns of honey bee resources. On the other hand, globalization facilitates world trade and the circulation of different species and subspecies on a global scale. The consequences for beekeeping of this genetic income are scarcely studied. In the case of alien and pathogenic species, they have been able to take advantage of the current circumstances to better adapt to the environment they invade, creating new threats for honey bees.

Therefore, beekeeping in a global world needs research focused on the identification of risk factors that compromise the activity. This Special Issue covers topics such as global warming effects, consequences of invasive species, new pests and diseases, as well as management strategies and innovative methodologies such as precision beekeeping, providing alternative solutions for this economic sector.

Dr. María Shantal Rodríguez-Flores
Dr. Olga Escuredo
Prof. Dr. M. Carmen Seijo
Guest Editors

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• beekeeping
• honey bees
• new challenges
• climate change
• pest management

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