Apidologie50 years

Since its foundation,Apidologiehas steadily gained recognition as a journal that reports results from high-quality scientific research on the biology of bees, and this means Apidae in general, not only on its most prominent species, the Western honey bee,Apis mellifera. All started 50 years ago in a conversation between two eminent scientists, Jean Louveaux, director of one of INRA's bee research unit in Bures-sur-Yvette and editor of the FrenchAnnales de l'Abeille, and Friedrich Ruttner, director of the Bee Research Institute in Oberursel and editor of the GermanZeitschrift fur Bienenforschung, where they discussed the possibility of merging these two journals to create an international bee research journal. Here, we takeApidologie's 50th anniversary as an opportunity to provide our readers with background information on the journal's history, especially on the persons and their contributions along this journey.

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Apidologie has established itself as a journal reporting high-quality scientific research on the biology of bees, with a focus not only on the Western honey bee, Apis mellifera. The origins of the journal can be traced back to a conversation between two prominent scientists 50 years ago, who discussed the possibility of creating an international bee research journal by merging their respective publications.