![]() The EPILOBEE project was co-financed by the European Commission (3,3 mEUR and 1,85 mEUR respectively) and by the 17 participating EU countries. Thus, the decrease in colony losses observed during 2013 – 2014 will be fully analysed, carefully interpreted and put into perspective in cooperation with the European Food Safety Authority. ![]() However, this has to be interpreted with caution. The decrease in overwintering colony mortality rates over these two years is noticeable. The mortality rates for winter 2013 – 2014 showed a narrower range (2.4% to 15.4%) than the mortality rates observed during the winter 2012 – 2013. This report aims at presenting the main results of the second year of EPILOBEE on colony mortality and on the prevalence of infectious and parasitic diseases, and to compare these results with those obtained during the previous year. Simultaneously, the main honey bee diseases were investigated based on case definitions and sampling protocols provided by the EURL. The objective of the two-year programme was to get a state of play of honey bee colony losses on a harmonised basis in each of the participating EU countries. The second and final report on the recently finished pan-European epidemiological study on honey bee colony losses ( EPILOBEE 2012-2014 ) has been prepared by the EU reference laboratory for bee health. ![]()
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