Sampling protocols have been established to collect:
1) from a total of about 120 colonies, honey bee workers, honey bee larvae and parts of one hive with honey from the same colony;
2) from a total of about 1200 colonies a few larvae for mtDNA analysis.
Please contact Prof. Luca Fontanesi (luca.fontanesi@unibo.it) for details on the sampling and shipping of the samples.