• Antimicrobial activity of bee-collected pollen and beebread: State of the art and future perspectives 

      Didaras N.A., Karatasou K., Dimitriou T.G., Amoutzias G.D., Mossialos D. (2020)
      Bee-collected pollen (BCP) is a well-known functional food. Honey bees process the collected pollen and store it in the hive, inside the comb cells. The processed pollen is called beebread or ambrosia and it is the main ...
    • Antiviral Activity of Bee Products 

      Kontogiannis T., Dimitriou T.G., Didaras N.A., Mossialos D. (2022)
      Honey bees provide many products exerting a wide range of benefits to humans. Honey, propolis, royal jelly, beeswax, bee venom, bee pollen and bee bread have been used as natural medicines since ancient times because of ...
    • Biological properties of bee bread collected from apiaries located across Greece 

      Didaras N.A., Kafantaris I., Dimitriou T.G., Mitsagga C., Karatasou K., Giavasis I., Stagos D., Amoutzias G.D., Hatjina F., Mossialos D. (2021)
      Bee bread is the only fermented product of the beehive. It constitutes the main source of proteins, lipids, vitamins, and macro-and microelements in honeybee nutrition and it exerts antioxidant and antimicrobial properties, ...
    • The role of botanical treatments used in apiculture to control arthropod pests 

      Ntalli N.G., Spochacz M., Adamski Z. (2022)
      Among pests of bees and beehives, arthropods make up a large and important group. Mites like Varroa destructor, Acarapis woodi, or Tropilaelaps spp., beetles (Aethina tumida, Oplostomus spp.), and lepidopterans (Galleria ...