Insight into Free-Living Honey Bee Population in Serbia’s Capital – A COLOSSal Walk around Belgrade
2022
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Background
In the past years, a surprisingly large number of free-living honey bee colonies was recorded in Belgrade, capital of Serbia (Bila Dubaić et al., 2021). Since there are no public city services that citizens could turn to if they notice a colony of free-living honey bees in their proximity, a large portion of such cases are reported to beekeepers. Owing mostly to the engagement of one Belgrade beekeeper, scientists of the Faculty of Biology University of Belgrade obtained a large set of data on free-living honey bees in Belgrade. The collected data covers a period of 7 years (2011–2017) and, after elimination of dubious and duplicated reports, the number of recorded swarms and colonies exceeded 1300.
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This is an original manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Bee World on 06 Dec 2022., available at: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/0005772X.2022.2151721
Keywords:
free-living honey bees; Belgrade; Serbia; COLOSSSource:
Bee World, 2022Funding / projects:
- SERBHIWE - Honey Bees of Serbia, Wild Vs. Managed Colonies Through the Eyes of Population Geneticists (RS-ScienceFundRS-Promis-6066205)
- Ministry of Science, Technological Development and Innovation of the Republic of Serbia, institutional funding - 200007 (University of Belgrade, Institute for Biological Research 'Siniša Stanković') (RS-MESTD-inst-2020-200007)