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Monitoring health status of Croatian honey bee colonies and possible reasons for winter losses

During recent years it appears that there have been increasing losses of honey bee colonies, and potential reasons are diseases, environmental factors such as pesticides and nutrition related stress among others. Honey bee diseases in particular pose considerable difficulties for beekeepers and the economy of a whole country. The intention of this study was to determine the total winter losses and the opinion of the beekeepers about the potential reasons for bee losses and the health conditions of their colonies.

diagnostic procedures; health condition; questionnaire; winter losses

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