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https://doi.org/10.5194/we-22-7-2022
https://doi.org/10.5194/we-22-7-2022
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04 Mar 2022
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An approach to the modeling of honey bee colonies

Jhoana P. Romero-Leiton, Alejandro Gutierrez, Ivan Felipe Benavides, Oscar E. Molina, and Alejandra Pulgarín

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In this work, we attempted to contrast three different modeling approaches to understand the population dynamics of immature bees, adult bees and the honey produced in the hive. From these three modeling approaches, we conclude that honey production is reduced due to the decrease in the total number of bees within the colony and due to an external stress factor, which could be climate variability, pesticides, parasites such as the Varroa mite, or habitat loss, among others.