Professor Thomas D Seeley is the Horace White Professor Emeritus in Biology at Cornell University. His books include ‘The Lives of Bees’, ‘Following the Wild Bees’, and ‘Honeybee Democracy’ (all published by Princeton).

Professor Thomas D Seeley is the Horace White Professor Emeritus in Biology at Cornell University. His books include ‘The Lives of Bees’, ‘Following the Wild Bees’, and ‘Honeybee Democracy’ (all published by Princeton).

Professor Jürgen Tautz is a behavioural scientist, sociobiologist and honey bee specialist. He is professor at the Biocenter of the Biozentrum der Julius-Maximilians-Univerität in Würzburg, Germany and is author of several books about bees, being best-known for The Buzz About Bees: Biology of a Superorganism (Springer, 2008) and Honey Bee (see March 2022).

Richard Rickitt is an award-winning author and co-editor of BeeCraft, the UK’s best-selling beekeeping magazine, read by beekeepers and entomologists around the world. He has been keeping bees for more than twenty years and keep hives for a number of commercial and private clients. Richard is beekeeper at Westonbirt, the National Arboretum, and he teaches beekeeping courses in the UK and abroad.

Stephen Fleming is co-editor of BeeCraft, the international award-winning honey bee and beekeeping magazine. A beekeeper for more than 30 years, he is a researcher by training and obtained a PhD at the University of Reading. He has been interested in environmental issues since he was a child and beekeeping continues to open yet more doors that increase his understanding of the natural world.

Francis LW Ratnieks and Nicholas J Balfour
Laboratory of Apiculture & Social Insects (LASI), Department of Evolution, Behaviour & Environment, School of Life Sciences. University of Sussex, Brighton, UK, BN1 9QG
[email protected]

Dr Steve Carr received his PhD in Genetics from UC Berkeley. He is professor of Biology at the Memorial University of Newfoundland in St John’s, Canada, with interests in the molecular phylogeography of fish and mammals in the Nearctic and North Atlantic. Together with the Miawpukek [Mi’kmaq] First Nation, he is investigating genetic continuity between ancient and modern indigenous peoples of Newfoundland.

Laboratory of Apiculture & Social Insects (LASI) School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK
[email protected]
[email protected]

Rémi Brouard is a board member of the French Société Centrale d’Apiculture (Central Beekeeping Association) (SCA) and the local Asian hornet team leader for GDSA22, a beekeeping health protection group for the region of Côtes-d’Armor in northern Brittany. Christian Guespin is GDSA22 vice-president. Marie Laure Legroux is SCA vice-president.

Christopher Allen is a PhD candidate at the University of California, Riverside (UCR), affiliated with the Center for Integrative Bee Research (CIBER) and supervised by Prof Boris Baer. His research focuses on the comparative proteomics of honey bees from distinct genetic lineages, aiming to understand how genetic diversity and hybridisation among Southern California honey bees contribute to resilience against heat stress.

Professor Thomas D Seeley is the Horace White Professor Emeritus in Biology at Cornell University. His books include ‘The Lives of Bees’, ‘Following the Wild Bees’, and ‘Honeybee Democracy’ (all published by Princeton).

Professor Thomas D Seeley is the Horace White Professor Emeritus in Biology at Cornell University. His books include ‘The Lives of Bees’, ‘Following the Wild Bees’, and ‘Honeybee Democracy’ (all published by Princeton).

Professor Jürgen Tautz is a behavioural scientist, sociobiologist and honey bee specialist. He is professor at the Biocenter of the Biozentrum der Julius-Maximilians-Univerität in Würzburg, Germany and is author of several books about bees, being best-known for The Buzz About Bees: Biology of a Superorganism (Springer, 2008) and Honey Bee (see March 2022).

Richard Rickitt is an award-winning author and co-editor of BeeCraft, the UK’s best-selling beekeeping magazine, read by beekeepers and entomologists around the world. He has been keeping bees for more than twenty years and keep hives for a number of commercial and private clients. Richard is beekeeper at Westonbirt, the National Arboretum, and he teaches beekeeping courses in the UK and abroad.

Stephen Fleming is co-editor of BeeCraft, the international award-winning honey bee and beekeeping magazine. A beekeeper for more than 30 years, he is a researcher by training and obtained a PhD at the University of Reading. He has been interested in environmental issues since he was a child and beekeeping continues to open yet more doors that increase his understanding of the natural world.

Francis LW Ratnieks and Nicholas J Balfour
Laboratory of Apiculture & Social Insects (LASI), Department of Evolution, Behaviour & Environment, School of Life Sciences. University of Sussex, Brighton, UK, BN1 9QG
[email protected]

Dr Steve Carr received his PhD in Genetics from UC Berkeley. He is professor of Biology at the Memorial University of Newfoundland in St John’s, Canada, with interests in the molecular phylogeography of fish and mammals in the Nearctic and North Atlantic. Together with the Miawpukek [Mi’kmaq] First Nation, he is investigating genetic continuity between ancient and modern indigenous peoples of Newfoundland.

Laboratory of Apiculture & Social Insects (LASI) School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK
[email protected]
[email protected]

Rémi Brouard is a board member of the French Société Centrale d’Apiculture (Central Beekeeping Association) (SCA) and the local Asian hornet team leader for GDSA22, a beekeeping health protection group for the region of Côtes-d’Armor in northern Brittany. Christian Guespin is GDSA22 vice-president. Marie Laure Legroux is SCA vice-president.

Christopher Allen is a PhD candidate at the University of California, Riverside (UCR), affiliated with the Center for Integrative Bee Research (CIBER) and supervised by Prof Boris Baer. His research focuses on the comparative proteomics of honey bees from distinct genetic lineages, aiming to understand how genetic diversity and hybridisation among Southern California honey bees contribute to resilience against heat stress.