Honeybee Products for Animal Welfare

Dear Colleagues,

Beekeeping is an activity that appears constantly throughout the history of humankind. The honeybee, mainly from the genus Apis, is the undisputed protagonist and produces two types of products: those secreted, and those collected and processed. Honey is the most abundant honeybee product; however, beekeeping also produces wax, royal jelly, poison, pollen, and propolis. Honeybee products have been characterized by their multiple properties and health benefits. Thus, propolis has been studied as a product with medicinal properties, such as antibiotic, anti-inflammatory, and healing, among others, while pollen and honey as supplements to the daily diet as products with healthy and nutritional properties. This opens up a range of applications, in addition to their use as food.

Although honeybees are a highly studied species of insects, we do not know much about the effects and properties that honeybee products have on animal welfare. Therefore, veterinarians and researchers pursuing the above study objectives are invited to describe their innovations in this Special Issue dedicated to “Honeybee Products for Animal Welfare”. The aim of this Special Issue is to present original research papers or reviews on the contribution of honeybee products to animal welfare. Studies focusing on healthy, nutritional, and medicinal applications of honeybee products in animals will be accepted.

Dr. María Shantal Rodríguez-Flores
Dr. Olga Escuredo
Dr. Soraia I. Falcão
Guest Editors

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• Apis
• honeybee products
• welfare
• honeybee diseases
• bee product chemistry
• biological properties
• unifloral honey
• honey, bee pollen, beebread, propolis, functional and physicochemical properties
• digestibility and bioavailabilty
• bioactive compounds
• characterization and nutrition value
• antifungal activity
• antimicrobial activity
• potential medicament
• apitherapy