DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.23999775.v1
title: Data from: First large-scale study reveals important colony losses of honey bees and stingless bees in Latin America

description: This dataset result from the first large-scale, standardized survey of colony losses of managed honey bees and stingless bees across Latin America. Overall, 1736 beekeepers and 165 meliponiculturists participated to the two-year survey (2016-2017 and 2017-2018). On average, 30.4% of honey bee colonies and 39.6% of stingless bees colonies were lost per year across the region, suggesting similar difficulties for both beekeepers and meliponiculturists in Latin America. Colony loss increased with operation size during summer but not during winter in both honey bees and stingless bees. Summer loss was higher than winter loss in stingless bees (33.6% and 20.1%, respectively) but not in honey bees (19.6% and 20.0%, respectively). Colony loss differed significantly between countries and across years in both honey bees and stingless bees. Winter loss of honey bee colonies in Latin America places between the United States (40.4%) and Europe (12.5%) trends. These results highlight the magnitude of bee colony loss occurring in Latin America, and the need to understand the drivers of colony loss in order to support beekeepers and meliponiculturists in the region. The data are related to the scientific paper "Requier, F., et al. (under review) First large-scale study reveals important colony losses of honey bees and stingless bees in Latin America. Scientific Reports".Data are available as a csv file titled "Requier et al._data colony loss in LA.csv".# METADATA<br>#'data.frame': 1901 obs. of 13 variables:<br># $ ID : Factor variable ; a unique identity for the reponse to the survey<br># $ Year : Factor variable ; two factors are available, representing the year when the response was collected, with "2017" for the first year of the survey (2016-2017 survey) and "2018" for the second year of the survey (2017-2018 survey)<br># $ Country : Factor variable ; 11 factors are available (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Uruguay, Mexico, Colombia, Bolivia, Peru, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Panama), reprensenting the country name were the response was collected<br># $ Bee_type : Factor variable ; two factors are available, representing the bee type of the response (i.e. Honey bee and Stingless bee)<br># $ Operation_type : Factor variable ; three factors are available, representing the operation type of the beekeeper/meliponiculturist (i.e. Semi-professional, Hobbyist, and Professional)<br># $ Operation_size : Numeric variable ; representing the number of colonies of the respondent<br># $ Operation_Size_Log10: Numeric variable ; representing the number of colonies of the respondent with Log10 transformation <br># $ N_dead_summer : Numeric variable ; representing the number of colonies dead during the summer of the surveyed year<br># $ N_alive_summer : Numeric variable ; representing the number of colonies alive during the summer of the surveyed year<br># $ N_dead_winter : Numeric variable ; representing the number of colonies dead during the winter of the surveyed year<br># $ N_alive_winter : Numeric variable ; representing the number of colonies alive during the winter of the surveyed year<br># $ N_dead_annual : Numeric variable; representing the number of colonies dead during the surveyed year<br># $ N_alive_annual : Numeric variable ; representing the number of colonies alive during the surveyed year<br>