About the Authors

Linde Morawetz

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

linde.morawetz@ages.at

Affiliation Department for Apiculture and Bee Protection, Institute for Seed and Propagating Material, Phytosanitary Service and Apiculture, Division for Food Security, Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety Ltd., Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Hemma Köglberger

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department for Apiculture and Bee Protection, Institute for Seed and Propagating Material, Phytosanitary Service and Apiculture, Division for Food Security, Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety Ltd., Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Antonia Griesbacher

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department for Statistics and Analytical Epidemiology, Division for Data, Statistics & Risk Assessment, Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety Ltd., Graz, Styria, Austria

Irmgard Derakhshifar

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department for Apiculture and Bee Protection, Institute for Seed and Propagating Material, Phytosanitary Service and Apiculture, Division for Food Security, Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety Ltd., Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Karl Crailsheim

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Biology, University of Graz, Graz, Styria, Austria

Robert Brodschneider

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Biology, University of Graz, Graz, Styria, Austria

Rudolf Moosbeckhofer

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department for Apiculture and Bee Protection, Institute for Seed and Propagating Material, Phytosanitary Service and Apiculture, Division for Food Security, Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety Ltd., Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Competing Interests

LM, HK, AG, ID and RM are employees of the Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety Ldt. (AGES). AGES is a limited liability company governed by private law which is wholly owned by the Republic of Austria. Due to the special ownership structure and the lack of self-interest of AGES, the particular working relationship is no circumstance that would call into question the author‘s impartiality or might give rise to a conflict of interest. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials’.