Alexander Komissar, Ukrainian bee scientist (PhD in biology), beekeeper and small scale queen breeder.

Komissar A. Heat treatment of Varroa infected colonies // Apiacta, 1985, #4: 113-117.
Komissar A. Nucleus hives with multiple sites // Apiacta,1990, #4 (XXY): 107-110.
Komissar A. New approaches to the problem of reserve honeybee queens storage in regions with particularly long winter //Apiacta, 1992, (XXVII) #4: 97-104.
Komissar A. Die ?berwinterung von Vorratsk?niginnen in Kleinv?lkchen // Mitteilungen ?ber Bienenbesamung, 1993, 5, 2: 21-24.
Komissar A. Extra multiple nucleus hives // Bee World, 1996, 77(2): 82-88 
Komissar A.  Improvement of multiple nucleus hives // American Bee Journal, 1996, 136, 4: 227-228.
Komissar A. Extra multiple nucleus hives - the real way to micronucs// The Beekeepers Quarterly, 1996, 45: 19-20.
Komissar A.  New rules for coloration marks of hive entrances // The Beekeepers Quarterly, 1996,-46:18.
Komissar A.  Open letter to English queen breeder Arthur Johnson // Bee Biz, 1998, 7: 39.
Komissar A. High temperature wintering of baby nucs with reserve queens // The Beekeepers Quarterly, 1998, 55: 17-18.
Komissar A. Cut comb honey from combs with wired foundation // The Beekeepers Quarterly, 1999, 58: 20.
Komissar A. The rearing of queens in queenright nursing colonies without queen excluders // The Beekeepers Quarterly, 2000, 60: 16-18
Piletska I., Zhila S., Komissar A.  Beekeeping with log hives and problems concerning the heather moors of Northern Ukraine // The Beekeepers Quarterly, 2001, 63: 12-14 
Komissar A. Pure beebread as new perspective product of apiculture // The Beekeepers Quarterly, 2001, #65: 15-16.
Komissar A.  The storage of beebread for bees and humans// The Beekeepers Quarterly, 2001, 66: 28-29.
Komissar A. A new method of producing bee bread // The Beekeepers Quarterly, 2001, 67: 29-30.
Komissar A. A simplified method of hive design leads to greater profitability for Ukrainian beekeepers //The Beekeepers Quarterly, 2002, 68: 32-33.
Komissar A.  Bitter wormwood (Artemisia absinthium L.) Instead of Fumagilin for Treating Nosema disease // The Beekeepers Quarterly, 2002, 69: 32-33.
Komissar A. The use of micronucs in a large-scale mating apiary // The Beekeepers Quarterly, 2002, #71: 25-27.
Komissar A. All-year-round keeping of mating nucs in the Styrofoam mating babynuc hives of the new design // Bee Biz.-2002.-1: 15-17.
Komissar A.  Extra multiple mating hives at large-scale mating apiary // Bee Biz,  2003, 15: 34-35.
 Komissar A. The weight of queen pupae can’t be used for rejecting of small virgin queens // The Beekeepers Quarterly, 2003, # 75: 32-33.
Komissar A. The remote monitoring of honey bee nucleus colonies during wintering using infrared thermography // The Beekeepers Quarterly, 2004, # 76: 16-18.
Komissar A. The peculiarities of the honeybee perception of the white and blue flat near-entrance marks // Journal of Apicultural Science, 2004, 48, #2: 5-11. 
Komissar A.  High temperature wintering of two-frame nucs // The Beekeepers Quarterly, 2005, #79: 38-40.
Komissar A. Extra multiple mating hives on the queen breeding stations in Ukraine // The Beekeepers Quarterly, 2005, #81: 44-46.
Komissar A. Rearing osmia bees in Ukraine //The Beekeepers Quarterly, 2006,  #82: 41-42.

Komissar A. Physiological observation on honeybee queens during low temperature storage // XXIV Congress of Apimondia, Lauzanne, Switzerland, Programme and summaries of the reports: 1995, 78-79.
Komissar A. Physiological observation on honeybee queens during low temperature storage, The XXXIV International Apicultural Congress of Apimondia, Lausanne, 1995,- Bucharest, Romania: Apimondia publishing house, 1997: 104-107.
Komissar A. The peculiarities of the honeybee colour perception of the flat and volumed near entrance marks // XXXV-th international apicultural congress of Apimondia, Antwerp, Belgium, September1997.-1997.- Bucharest, Romania: Apimondia publishing house.- P.150-151.
Komissar A. Extra multiple mating nucleus hives for the temperate climate condition // Ibidem: 358-359.
Komissar A. The possibilities of the use of infrared thermography for the control of overwintering of honey bee colonies //Book of Abstracts, XXXVIII-th Apimondia International Apicultural Congress, Ljubljana, Slovenia, August 24-29, 2003.- P.684-685.
Komissar A., Egoshin L. Protective “cloth” for the honey bee winter cluster // Ibidem - P. 692-693.
Shumakova I., Komissar A. Cells orientation in the natural honeybee combs // Ibidem - P.694-695.
Shumakova I., Komissar A. Attaching cells in the honeybee combs. //39th Apimondia International congress, Ireland, Dublin, 2005, Abstracts, P.101-102.
, Komissar A., Shumakova I. New kinds of comb honey. //39th Apimondia International congress, Ireland, Dublin, 2005, Abstracts, P.135.
Materials of the different scientific conferences.
Komissar A. Why do honeybees not distinguish white and blue near-entrance marks? Proceedings of the International Colloquia on Social Insects. V. E. Kipyatkov (Ed.), Russian Language Section of the IUSSI, Socium, St. Petersburg, 1997, vol. 3–4, pp. 117–120.
Komissar A. 1997 – Some peculiarities of honeybees orientation near the hive entrance and their use in the design of extra multiple nucleus hives. Ibidem, pp. 301-302.
Komissar A. Behavioural adaptations of the honeybee, Apis mellifera, to long overwintering // Abstracts of IV-th European Workshop of Invertebrate Ecophysiology, St. Petersburg, Russia, 9-15 September 2001: 105.
Komissar A. Honey bees adaptation to long hibernation // Proceeding of 2001 Berlin Meeting of European Section of IUSSI, page 115.
Komissar A.,Shumakova I. Orientation of cells in the natural honeybee combs // Proceeding of 2001 Berlin Meeting of European Section of IUSSI, page 196.
Komissar A., Shumakova I. Fasterning, conjunctive and compensatory cells in honeybee combs // Proceeding of 2001 Berlin Meeting of European Section of IUSSI, page 197.
Komissar A. Bee locks // The 1-st European Scientific Apicultural conference (Pulawy, Poland, 5-8 September 2000, Programme and summaries of the reports, P. 47-48.
Komissar A. The surfaces, which reflect the ultraviolet rays, are the excellent marks of entrances to the honey bee nests // XL Naukowa Konferencja Pszczelarska, Materialy z Konferencji, Pulawy, 2003.- P. 44-45.
Komissar A. The possibilities of the use of infrared thermography for the control of overwintering of honey bee colonies // XL Naukowa Konferencja Pszczelarska, Pulawy, Materialy z Konferencji, 2003.- P. 46-47.
Komissar A. Preliminary tests of the plastic China royal jelly queen cups applied for the queen rearing. // XLI Naukowa Konferencja Pszczelarska, Materialy z Konferencji, Pulawy, 2004.- P.24-26.
Komissar A. The possibility of the use of two-coloured near entrance marks in the extra multiple hives // XLII Naukowa Konferencja Pszczelarska, Materialy z Konferencji, Pulawy, 2005. P.40-42.
Shumakova I., Komissar A. Classification of incorrect cells in the honeybee comb // XLII Naukowa Konferencja Pszczelarska, Materialy z Konferencji, Pulawy, 2005. P.14-16.
Komissar A. Changes in life cycle of the honeybee in small babynuc colonies at unusual temperature regimes of overwintering // Programme and abstracts of the International Symposium “Life Cycles in Social Insects: Behavioural, Ecological and Evolutionary Approach”, St- Petersburg, Russia, September 2003.- St. Petersburg University Press, 2003.- P.38.
Shumakova I., Komissar A. Natural honey bee combs attached to the vertical surfaces. Proceeding of the 3-rd Europian Congress on Social Insects, St. Petersburg, Russia, 22-27 August 2005, P. 171.
Komissar A. Races of honey bees, human nations and religions. Proceeding of the 3-rd European Congress on Social Insects, St. Petersburg, Russia, 22-27 August 2005, P. 61.
Komissar A. Thermoregulation of honey bees in winter by means of vertical movement in the hives with vertical gradient of temperature. Proceeding of the 3-rd European Congress on Social Insects, St. Petersburg, Russia, 22-27 August 2005, P. 78.
Komissar A. The peculiarities of the honeybee perception of two-coloured near entrance marks. Proceeding of the 3-rd European Congress on Social Insects, St. Petersburg, Russia, 22-27 August 2005, P.155.

1. High-temperature wintering of honey bees, Kiev, 1994, 168 pages (in Russian).
2. Extra multiple nucleus mating hives, Kiev, 1997, 96 pages (in Russian).

The PhD Thesis: Optimization of conditions, which provide the surviving of honey bees Apis mellifera L. under the influence of extremal factors, Kiev, 1991, 211 pages (in Russian).