| Abstract: |
| Western honeybees (i.e., Apis Mellifera) serve extremely important roles in our ecosystem and economics as they are responsible for pollinating $ 215 billion dollars annually over the world. Unfortunately, honeybee population and their colonies have been declined dramatically. The purpose of this article is to explore how we should model honeybee population and valid the model by data so that we could identify varied factors that affect the survival and healthy of the honeybee colony. Our theoretical study combined with simulations and data validation suggests that the proper age structure incorporated in the model as well as seasonality are important for honeybee population modeling. The future model should include mites, viruses, and pesticides. |
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