| HBWPs | Honey Bee Welfare Practices |
| HW | Human Wellbeing |
| EW | Environmental Welfare |
| HBW | Honey Bee Welfare |
| WHO | World Health Organization |
| WOAH | World Organization for Animal Health |
| P | Production |
| T | Time consumption |
| I | Benefit for the individual bee |
| S | Benefit for the superorganism in the long term |
| AFB | American Foulbrood |
| EFB | European Foulbrood |
| SHB | Small Hive Beatle |
| PPPs | Plant Protection Products (phytosanitary products) |
| NaOH | Sodium hydroxide |
| NaClO | Sodium hypochlorite |
| ABPV | Acute Bee Paralysis Virus |
| DWV | Deformed Wing Virus |
| IAPV | Israeli Acute Paralysis Virus |
| KBV | Kashmir Bee Virus |
| SBV | Slow Bee Paralysis Virus |
| CO2 | Carbon dioxide |
| P. larvae | Paenibacillus larvae |
| PCR | Polymerase Chain Reaction |
| M. plutonius | Melissococcus Plutonius |
| A. tumida | Aethina tumida |