Challenges and Perspectives for Beekeeping
A special issue of Agriculture (ISSN 2077-0472). This special issue belongs to the section "Farm Animal Production".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 November 2024 | Viewed by 87
Special Issue Editors
Interests: honeybee biology; honeybee behavior; honeybee breeding; genetic diversity resources; honeybee diseases; beekeeping; nectar resources; bee products
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Bees are an organism that appeared very early in Earth’s history, perhaps even earlier than humans. From the perspective of biological evolution and natural adaptation, they are also a very successful organism with a high degree of sociality, and they are able to adapt to many different climates and ecological environments. As an organism that benefits humans in many different ways, bees produce no pollution, promote high yields and the quality of crops, produce bee products that are beneficial for human health and their aggressive behavior (bee stinging) has even been used to treat certain diseases.
The story between humans and bees can be traced back to 5000 years ago when ancient people utilized wild honey. For thousands of years, humans have greatly changed the climate and environment of our planet and greatly changed other organisms as well, including bees. With human intervention (or assistance), the bee population has increased from being small to large, and its distribution has further expanded; indeed, they were packed into rectangular boxes and brought around the world.
Today, the relationship between bees and humans is closer than ever before. We have established a special festival for bees (May 20th), and we certainly hope that bees will neither disappear nor suffer any harm. On the contrary, we hope that they will play a more important role in our lives as human beings, including through pollination, environmental indicators, bee therapy, etc.
Dr. Mingxian Yang
Prof. Dr. Fuliang Hu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- beekeeping
- pollination
- bee products
- nectar resources
- breeding
- honeybee genetic resources
- bee virus
- honeybee health
- gut bacteria
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