The COLOSS BEEBOOK Volume I, Standard methods for Apis mellifera research: Introduction

Dietemann, Vincent; Ellis, James D.; Neumann, Peter; Ellis, James D. (2013). The COLOSS BEEBOOK Volume I, Standard methods for Apis mellifera research: Introduction. In: Dietemann, Vincent; Neumann, Peter (eds.) The COLOSS BEEBOOK, Volume I: standard methods for Apis mellifera research. Journal of Apicultural Research: Vol. 52 (pp. 1-4). Treforest: International Bee Research Association IBRA 10.3896/IBRA.1.52.4.23

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The COLOSS BEEBOOK is a practical manual compiling standard methods in all fields of research on the western honey bee, Apis mellifera. The COLOSS network was founded in 2008 as a consequence of the heavy and frequent losses of managed honey bee colonies experienced in many regions of the world (Neumann and Carreck, 2010). As many of the world’s honey bee research teams began to address the problem, it soon became obvious that a lack of standardized research methods was seriously hindering scientists’ ability to harmonize and compare the data on colony losses obtained internationally. In its second year of activity, during a COLOSS meeting held in Bern, Switzerland, the idea of a manual of standardized honey bee research methods emerged. The manual, to be called the COLOSS BEEBOOK, was inspired by publications with similar purposes for fruit fly research (Lindsley and Grell, 1968; Ashburner 1989; Roberts, 1998; Greenspan, 2004).

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