Meet the editor

Dr. Ramón Eduardo Rebolledo Ranz has been an agronomist since 1986 at the Universidad Austral de Chile. He received his PhD in Agricultural Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Madrid. He has been working at the University of La Frontera since 1986, responsible for agricultural entomology, apiculture and zoology. He has been a guide professor of more than eighty undergraduate theses in the careers of agronomy,

forestry engineering, and natural resources engineering. He has also directed theses of Master and Doctorate students. He participates in postgraduate examining commissions in different Chilean universities. He has participated in more than fifteen research projects on pests and bees with more than 80 scientific articles in national and international journals on the specialty. He has authored a book and three book chapters, in addition to being editor of two books and has created original class books for entomology subjects. He is currently working on writing a book on beekeeping and another on insects associated with sport fishing. He has presented more than 100 papers in national and international scientific congresses. He is recognized on the Who is Who platform. He has organized and chaired the organization of Scientific Congresses of Entomology, Management of Renewable Natural Resources and Apiculture of national and international character. He is a Scientific Advisor of the National Apicola Network of Chile. He is currently working in the organization of XIV Latin American Congress of Beekeeping to be held in Temuco (Chile) in 2020 and participates in the Commission that will apply to organize the World Beekeeping Congress (Apimondia) in 2023. He has held different management positions within the University of La Frontera where he works.

Contents

*by Ramón Rebolledo Ranz*

Essential Oils: Review

*by Zahra Naeef Ayoub*

*by Luciano Pilati and Paolo Fontana*

*Rosa María Alonso-Salces and Matías Maggi*

Beekeeping in Brazil: A Bibliographic Review

*and Sandra Maria Botelho Mariano*

**Preface III**

**Chapter 1 1**

**Chapter 2 5**

**Chapter 3 25**

**Chapter 4 45**

**Chapter 5 61**

*Ivaneide de Oliveira Nascimento, Djany Souza Silva, Gerbeli de Mattos Salgado,* 

Sequencing the Movements of Honey Bee Colonies between the Forage Sites

Prevention and Control of American Foulbrood in South America with

Virulence of *Varroa destructor* in Colonies of Honey Bee *Apis mellifera*

Introductory Chapter: Actuality and Trends of Beekeeping Worldwide

with the Microeconomic Model of the Migratory Beekeeper

*by Sandra Rosa Fuselli, Pablo Gimenez Martinez, Giselle Fuentes,*

*by Karuane Saturnino da Silva Araújo, Bruno Machado Araújo, Diego Carvalho Viana, Jailson Honorato, Virlane Kelly Lima Hunaldo,* 

*Leonardo Moreira de Oliveira, Eline Pacheco, Cláudia Lima Dias,* 

*Ila Raquel Mello Cardoso, Dark Luzia dos Santos Neto,* 

*José de Ribamar Macedo Costa, Jaisane Santos Melo Lobato* 
