13 – 15 February 2019 – Rome, Italy

The honey bee health symposium 2019 draws international attention to innovative approaches to bee health and the pathologies and risks due to environmental contamination.

The conference is organized by the Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale del Lazio e della Toscana, with Apimondia and the Italian Ministry of Health. The event will bring together beekeepers and international experts from the scientific community to foster research and share experiences and new practices in beekeeping to protect the health of bees and consumers.

In particular, the conference will address the following topics:

• good beekeeping practices
• the diffusion of Aethina tumida, the small beetle of the hive
• investigations on the main bee diseases
• environmental contamination.