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The preceding comparison of the environments of honey bee colonies living in the wild versus in apiaries sets the stage for reviewing the host–parasite interactions that ultimately define colony health. Let us now compare the impacts of disease on colonies living in the differing settings in which honey bee colonies now find themselves. Compared to organisms that do not live in large and complex eusocial societies (i.e. ones with a reproductive division of labor and overlapping generations) honey bees have far greater complexities in their host–pathogen and host–parasite relationships.