Honey bee performance in Germany - towards a Digital Twin prototype

Honey bees (apis mellifera) provide important services by producing honey and pollinating commercial crops but also a wide range of wild flowers. Therefore, honey bees contribute to diversity but also rely to some extent on diverse landscapes, since bees depend on the continuous provision of nectar and pollen in particular in times when the mass flowering crops (e.g. oil seed rape) are not available. Honey bees face multiple stressors such as intensive agriculture, diseases and temporal limitation in nectar and pollen supply. Digital Twin applications can help to assess the quality of a given landscape for honey bee performance and honey production.

The poster was first presented at the BioDT Annual Meeting 2023, 13-14 June in Leiden, Netherlands.

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