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Prevalence of honeybee diseases in Incheon area in 2011

  • Ra, Do-Kyung (Incheon Metropolitan City Institute of Health & Environment) ;
  • Jeong, Cheol (Incheon Metropolitan City Institute of Health & Environment) ;
  • Lee, Joo-Ho (Incheon Metropolitan City Institute of Health & Environment) ;
  • Lee, Yun-Mi (Incheon Metropolitan City Institute of Health & Environment) ;
  • Kim, Kyoung-Ho (Incheon Metropolitan City Institute of Health & Environment) ;
  • Han, Tae-Ho (Incheon Metropolitan City Institute of Health & Environment) ;
  • Lee, Sung-Mo (Incheon Metropolitan City Institute of Health & Environment)
  • Received : 2012.03.05
  • Accepted : 2012.05.30
  • Published : 2012.06.30

Abstract

This study investigated the occurrence of honeybee diseases in Incheon area, at the point of great widespread of sacbrood disease in the country. Sixteen resident beekeeping apiaries; 3 native honeybee and 13 European honeybee apiaries were selected for this research. Over 20 adult bees were evenly collected from the most colonies of each apiary three times (March, June, November) within a year. In this work, 13 honeybee diseases including 7 viral diseases, 2 bacterial diseases, 2 fungal diseases, and 2 parasitic diseases were detected by preliminary inspections and PCR. As a result, viral infections were confirmed at 34 among 48 apiaries (70.8%) over the entire examination period. Parasitic diseases showed the highest detection rate of 45.8%, which are detected in 44 among 96 cases. In the seasonal prevalence, 30 cases (15.6%) of 7 pathogens were detected from 14 apiaries in March, 50 cases (24.0%) of 9 pathogens and 56 cases (26.9%) of 9 pathogens were detected from all apiaries in June and November, respectively. Nosema was shown to be the most prevalent pathogen from March to November, followed by sacbrood virus (SBV) and stonebrood. The spread of SBV infection in Incheon would be under-estimated by the increasing of detection rate over the time. Especially, Chinese sacbrood virus was detected from 4 European honybee apiaries, but clinical symptoms were not found. No chalkbrood, acute bee paralysis virus, and chronic bee paralysis virus were detected in this study. The effective therapy and preventive measures should be prepared for beekeeping industry.

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