Since its foundation, Apidologie has 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 French Annales de l’Abeille, and Friedrich Ruttner, director of the Bee Research Institute in Oberursel and editor of the German Zeitschrift für Bienenforschung, where they discussed the possibility of merging these two journals to create an international bee research journal. Here, we take Apidologie’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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养蜂50年

自创刊以来，Apidologie 作为一份报道蜜蜂生物学高质量科学研究结果的期刊稳步获得认可，这意味着一般而言，Apiidae，不仅是其最突出的物种西方蜜蜂 Apis mellifera。一切始于 50 年前两位著名科学家的一次谈话，他们是位于 Bures-sur-Yvette 的 INRA 蜜蜂研究部门之一的主任、法国 Annales de l'Abeille 的编辑 Jean Louveaux 和蜜蜂研究中心的主任 Friedrich Ruttner Oberursel 研究所和德国 Zeitschrift für Bienenforschung 的编辑，在那里他们讨论了合并这两种期刊以创建国际蜜蜂研究期刊的可能性。这里，