Resilient beekeeping and breeding to safeguard natural genetic resources and pollination services

Project Information

BeeGuards

Grant agreement ID: 101082073

DOI

10.3030/101082073

EC signature date 26 April 2023

Start date 1 October 2023

End date 30 September 2027

Funded under

• Food, Bioeconomy Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment

Total cost

€ 5 495 685,00

EU contribution

€ 5 495 682,50

Coordinated by

CONSIGLIO PER LA RICERCA IN AGRICOLTURA E L'ANALISI DELL'ECONOMIA AGRARIA
Italy

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Deliverables

Documents, reports (3)

Manual for BeeGuards field study

Collection of test protocols for management of institutional and beekeeper apiaries, providing detailed instructions for standardised colony management, measurements and sampling (Task 1.3)

Guidelines for resilience mating stations

Guidelines for establishment of paired mating stations, testing apiaries, management of drone colonies and queen nukes and evaluation of resilience traits (Task 2.1)

"Practice abstracts #1"

Lay-summaries outlining BeeGuards objectives and our plans and main findings, to be published on the EIP-AGRI website (Task 9.5)

Websites, patent fillings, videos etc. (3)

BeeGuards Press release

General press release available to all partners for dissemination to 3rd Parties (Task 9.1)

www.WikiBEEdia.eu

The WikiBEEdia website is established with initial contents (Task 9.4)

www.BeeGuards.eu

Project website and Social Media accounts online (Task 9.1)

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (8)

A scientific note on ‘Rapid brood decapping’—a method for assessment of honey bee (Apis mellifera) brood infestation with Tropilaelaps mercedesae

Author(s): Aleksandar Uzunov, Irakli Janashia, Chao Chen, Cecilia Costa, Marin Kovačić
Published in: Apidologie, Issue 56, 2025, ISSN 0044-8435
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1007/S13592-025-01171-2

Correction: Assessment of the efficacy of field and laboratory methods for the detection of Tropilaelaps spp.

Author(s): null null
Published in: PLOS ONE, Issue 19, 2024, ISSN 1932-6203
Publisher: Public Library of Science (PLoS)
DOI: 10.1371/JOURNAL.PONE.0316864

Assessment of the efficacy of field and laboratory methods for the detection of Tropilaelaps spp.

Author(s): Maggie C. Gill, Bajaree Chuttong, Paul Davies, Dan Etheridge, Lakkhika Panyaraksa, Victoria Tomkies, George Tonge, Giles E. Budge
Published in: PLOS ONE, Issue 19, 2024, ISSN 1932-6203
Publisher: Public Library of Science (PLoS)
DOI: 10.1371/JOURNAL.PONE.0301880

Effects of pollen enriched diet on hypopharyngeal glands’ morphology and morphometry and vitellogenin transcription levels in honey bees

Author(s): Claudia D’Emilio, Viviana Valenzano, Paola Maiolino, Karen Power, Manuela Martano, Gennaro Di Prisco
Published in: Italian Journal of Animal Science, Issue 24, 2025, ISSN 1828-051X
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
DOI: 10.1080/1828051X.2025.2456097

An AI-Based Open-Source Software for Varroa Mite Fall Analysis in Honeybee Colonies

Author(s): Jesús Yániz, Matías Casalongue, Francisco Javier Martinez-de-Pison, Miguel Angel Silvestre, Beeguards Consortium, Pilar Santolaria, Jose Divasón
Published in: Agriculture, Issue 15, 2025, ISSN 2077-0472
Publisher: MDPI AG
DOI: 10.3390/AGRICULTURE15090969

WikiBeedia.eu: A Multilinguistic Encyclopedia on Bees and Beekeeping

Author(s): Georg Schaunitzer, Raffaele Dall’Olio, Flemming Vejsnæs, Robert Brodschneider
Published in: Bee World, 2025, ISSN 0005-772X
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
DOI: 10.1080/0005772X.2025.2505351

Back to the Fundamentals – BeeGuards, a Project on Resilient Beekeeping

Author(s): Cecilia Costa, Aleksandar Uzunov, null null
Published in: Bee World, Issue 101, 2025, ISSN 0005-772X
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
DOI: 10.1080/0005772X.2024.2350872

Rapid Brood Decapping for <i>Tropilaelaps mercedesae</i> Detection

Author(s): Aleksandar Uzunov, Irakli Janashia, Chao Chen, Cecilia Costa, Marin Kovačić
Published in: Bee World, 2025, ISSN 0005-772X
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
DOI: 10.1080/0005772X.2025.2483730

Conference proceedings (1)

3 BeeGuards abstract published

Author(s): C. Costa et al., A. Antonopolus et al., J. Prešern et al.
Published in: 2024, ISSN 3059-5606
Publisher: Estonian University of Life Sciences