Acknowledgements
We would like to thank the many beekeepers who participated in the study, as well as Mr. Thomas Galea from the NGO Breeds of Origin who provided key help and recommendations concerning the questions in the questionnaire. We extend our gratitude to the local beekeeping associations for helping to circulate and publicize the questionnaire among their members. We also wish to thank Mr. Michael Micallef Trigona who translated the questionnaire into Maltese and Mr. Johann Galdies for his assistance during data inputting.
Supplementary material
Supplementary (a copy of the English questionnaire) is available via ‘Supplementary’ tab on the article’s online page (https://doi.org/10.1080/0005772X.2022.2113231).
Disclosure statement
No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.