Biomics

In recent decades, the international community beekeepers have seen a sharp increase in mortality of bees in the developed world and in Russia. If in the XX century the mortality of colonies was 10.5% for the season, then in the XXI mortality reaches 20-30%. According to a recent survey by experts from the US Department of Agriculture, from April 2014 to April 2015, beekeepers lost 42.1% of their bee colonies. For the past ten years, as scientists investigate the causes of reducing the number of bees in Europe. Scientists particularly concerned about the fact that the processes of extinction bee colonies are becoming more ambitious, and the death of the families in the world is between 30-50%. And if the negative economic consequences of the death of bee colonies in many countries managed to neutralize the biological problems of a lifetime working individuals honeybee remain unsolved. In Russia, we have a situation where there is no centralized approach to monitoring the death of bees during the season, according to some estimates the mortality rate is between 15 to 30%.

dark forest bee, vitellogenin, polymorphism, queen, viability

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