A national survey of managed honey bee 2014–2015 annual colony losses in the USA

By N. Seitz, Kirsten S. Traynor, Nathalie Steinhauer, Karen Rennich, Mikayla E. Wilson, J. Ellis, R. Rose, David R. Tarpy, Ramesh R Sagili, D. Caron and 8 more. 2015

392 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics, Insect Science

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In Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

1. Richard J. Gill
2. L. Garibaldi
3. J. Ollerton
4. John M. Holland
5. Robert Brodschneider
6. Karl Crailsheim
7. T. Breeze
8. M. Garratt

In Genetics

1. Richard J. Gill
2. N. Simon-Delso
3. J. Osborne
4. G. Woodward
5. Karl Crailsheim
6. Mark J. F. Brown
7. S. Potts
8. L. Garibaldi

In Insect Science

1. Richard J. Gill
2. Robert Brodschneider
3. J. Ollerton
4. Karl Crailsheim
5. N. Simon-Delso
6. J. Osborne
7. M. Garratt
8. G. Woodward

Citations in the corpus

• Honeybee health in South America (2016, background): “Recently, Lee et al. (2015) reported colony losses in the USA to be 19.8 % during the summer, 23.7 % during the winter, and 34.1 % for the whole year.”
• Trends in beekeeping and honey bee colony losses in Latin America (2018, result): “Overall, estimates of honey bee colony losses in LA were lower than standardized estimates of USA (Kulhanek et al., 2017; Lee et al., 2015; Seitz et al., 2015; Steinhauer et al., 2014; van Engelsdorp et al., 2012), for respective years (Table 1, Supplementary Table S2).”
• Protecting an ecosystem service: approaches to understanding and mitigating threats to wild insect pollinators (2016, background): “The significant loss of 274 honeybee colonies each year (Lee et al., 2015; Neumann and Carreck, 2010; Oldroyd, 2007; 275 Potts et al., 2010b), has raised concern, in both the food production industry and the public 276 domain, for the effect on the overall pollination service that honeybees provide…”
• Preliminary analysis of loss rates of honey bee colonies during winter 2015/16 from the COLOSS survey (2016, positive): “3% for the winter of 2014/15 in the USA and even higher in some previous years (Seitz et al., 2015).”
• Multi-country loss rates of honey bee colonies during winter 2016/2017 from the COLOSS survey (2018, positive): “Our results are broadly in accordance with reports from the USA, where migratory beekeeping was not found to increase colony loss rates (Kulhanek et al., 2017; Seitz et al., 2016).”