Annually around 30 countries participate in our winterloss survey. Our group produce annually a standardized questionnaire with essential and optional questions. Those questions are distributed to beekeepers in the respective countries. Different methods are use. Could be in the local beekeeper magazine, on meetings, direct contact or online. The most common is via an online questionnaire program, called Limesurvey. We offer to host relevant countries Limesurvey. We make a template questionnaire in English that is easy to make a translate to local languages. Answers will be exported to an excel spreadsheet. Each local coordinator will receive a codebook, where the data must be verified and paste into. Hereafter the data is submitted our coordinator.
About 30 countries take part in the monitoring group, around 20 use our Limesurvey setup.
Do you want to become a part of our team?
We expect from you:
Your country is not already a part of our data collection.
You are involved and have a national network to beekeepers.
You could be a university person or organization person.
You are able to translate from English to local language.
You will invest time in this work, that is voluntary.
You will become a part of our great team and you will be an important part in clarifying honeybee losses.
Please contact:
Dr. Robert Brodschneider (robert.brodschneider@uni-graz.at) and Dr. Alison Gray (a.j.gray@strath.ac.uk)