• 한국동물위생학회지
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• 제39권4호
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• pp.253-258
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• 2016

This study was conducted to investigate the prevalence of honey bee (Apis mellifera) disease in Daejeon. From May to September in 2014, 63 samples were collected from 63 apiculture farms in the regions and reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) and polymerase chain reaction (PCR) was conducted. A total of 11 infectious pathogens, including 6 virus, 2 bacteria, 2 fungi, and 1 parasite, were investigated in honeybee colonies suffering from symptom of sudden collapse, depopulation or paralysis. The infectious pathogens and infection rates among 63 honeybee colonies detected were as follows: sacbrood virus (12.7%), chronic bee paralysis virus (1.6%), stonebrood (11.1%), American foulbrood (19.0%), European foulbrood (6.3%), respectively. The result indicate that foul-brood was most prevalent disease in apiculture farms in Daejeon area.

• 한국양봉학회지
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• 제33권4호
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• pp.261-268
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• 2018

Queen honey bees (Apis cerana) can be reared artificially on demand by the use of grafting technique. The technique consists of grafting young worker larvae into queen cell cups and raising in a queenless strong colony. As the age of grafted larvae for queen rearing exhibited several aspects related to quality and reproductive potential of queen, this study were conducted to investigate the influence of age of grafted larva on morphological characteristics and lifespan of queen, and the growth of colony she headed. Our results demonstrated that queens reared from young worker larvae (i.e., less than 1-day old larvae) were significantly larger in size (i.e., body weight and thorax width) than that of queens reared from 2-day old worker larvae. Moreover, queens reared from younger worker larvae initiated egg-laying earlier, stored more spermatozoa in spermatheca and had a longer lifespan compared to queens raised from older worker larvae. We also found a significant positive effect of queen grafting age on the production of worker and drone brood, adult worker population in colonies headed by queens reared from younger larvae. These findings suggested that rearing queens from brood grafted at the earliest possible age could increase the reproductive potential of queen as well as fitness of colony she head.

• 한국양봉학회지
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• 제33권4호
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• pp.239-250
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• 2018

We investigated the pollination activity of honeybees (Apis mellifera L.) in terms of different climatic conditions in the greenhouse cultivation of watermelons (Citrullus lanatus L.) during winter. The aim of the study was to search a climatic condition which effectively can be use honeybees as pollinators during the flowering season of watermelons in winter or early spring. The average climatic conditions inside the greenhouse during the bee activity time (BAT)-between 10:00 and 16:00 in mid-Februarywere a temperature of $30.4^{\circ}C$, relative humidity of 53.7%, illuminance level of 22,728.4lx, and UV level of $0.233mW/cm^2$. Bee traffic and foraging activity were at their greatest at 10:00 and tended to decrease with time. Male watermelon flowers typically dehisced between 10:00 and 12:00. Climatic conditions were significantly correlated with bee activities, including bee traffic and foraging activity. Bee activities were positively correlated with temperature, illuminance level, and UV level but negatively correlated with relative humidity. Temperature had the greatest effect on honeybee behavior. Among the foraging honeybees, the number of high-flying bees that did not pollinate flowers showed a strong positive correlation with temperature, and the number of bees landing on the flowers showed a positive correlation with the UV level. The temperature range inside greenhouses at which the pollination activities of honeybees can be maintained efficiently during winter watermelon pollination was found to be $21{\sim}25^{\circ}C$.

• 한국양봉학회지
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• 제33권4호
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• pp.251-260
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• 2018

Instrumental insemination of honey bee is an attractive alternative to natural mating in breeding program as it allows mating crosses between desirable queen and specific drone. However, nursery condition that the queen is kept before and after insemination is major factor affected to the performance of instrumentally inseminated queen. In this study, we evaluated the influences of three different nursery-conditions of push-in cages, mini nuclei and normal colonies on number of spermatozoa stored in the spermatheca, body weight, onset of ovipositon and performance of instrumentally inseminated Apis cerana queen. Our results demonstrated that instrumentally inseminated queens kept in mini nuclei and in normal hives showed no significant difference in queen's weight (159.8 and 166.2mg, respectively), number of spermatozoa in spermatheca ($2.02{\times}10^6$ and $2.76{\times}10^6$, respectively), proportion of queen supersedure (33.3 and 66.7% queen survival at 11 months after oviposition, respectively) and brood production, compared to naturally mated queens. In contrast, instrumentally inseminated queens kept in push-in cages showed significant difference of those above data in comparison to queens mated naturally. Our results suggested that instrumentally inseminated queens could be kept in mini nuclei containing about 1.000 attendant bees to have desirable performance of queen whereas the push-in method should be practiced for the purpose of using queen in the length of time less than 7 months.

• 한국양봉학회지
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• 제32권3호
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• pp.191-198
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• 2017

말벌류는 국내 양봉 산업에 가장 큰 피해를 입히는 생물군이다. 다양한 트랩 개발 및 포획 방법이 제시되고 있으나 아직까지 뚜렷한 해결책을 제시하지 못하고 있다. 본 연구팀은 장수말벌 특이 날갯짓 파동 프로파일 분석을 통하여, 장수말벌이 양봉장으로 공격해 들어올 때 이를 자동으로 탐지하고 그 정보를 사용자에게 전달할 수 있는 시스템을 개발하고 실험실 현장에서 검증하였다. 장수말벌 파동 프로파일은 명확하게 설정되었으며, 앉아서 날갯짓을 할 때와 실재 비행할 때의 파동 프로파일은 명확히 구분되었다. 이정보를 활용하여, 시스템을 구성하고 그 시스템은 장수말벌을 탐지하면 바로 트위터를 통하여 사용자에게 말벌 경보를 전송하는 방식으로 설계하였다. 시스템의 검증은 야외 온실 내 케이지에서 수행하였다. 수행결과 시스템은 성공적으로 말벌의 비행활동을 탐지하여 그 결과를 사용자에게 전달하였다. 비록 이 시스템은 실내 제한된 조건에서 검증되었지만, 향후 시스템의 개선 및 정확도가 향상된다면 양봉산업 현장에서 활용 가능성이 높다.

• 한국양봉학회지
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• 제32권2호
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• pp.89-97
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• 2017

한국형 낭충봉아부패병 바이러스는 2009년 국내에 발생하여, 현재 국내 토봉의 99% 이상을 소멸시킨 주요 원인으로 추정되고 있다. 본 연구는 보고된 낭충봉아부패병 바이러스(SBV) 32종의 전체 염기서열을 비교 분석하여, 2,100 염기 부근에 특징적인 결실들(deletions)을 발견하였으며, 이에 기반으로 SBV의 유전자형을 제안하게 되었다. 제안된 유전자형에 의한 분류에서, 각 SBV의 지역성 및 범지역성, 감염특성 등에 유관함을 볼 수 있었다. 아울러, 제안된 이 유전자형은, 검역과 이후의 침임에 대한 방호를 위하여, kSBV의 기원도 바로 암시하고 있음을 우리는 잘 인식하고 있다.

• 한국양봉학회지
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• 제32권2호
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• pp.99-109
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• 2017

DWV, IAPV, KBV, SBV, BQCV, kSBV, SBPV and Paenibacillus larvae, Mellisococcus plutonius, Lysinibacillus fusiformis, Klebsiella oxytoca의 뒤영벌 병원체들에 대한 다중 실시간 중합효소 연쇄반응법(PCR)을 개발하였다. 하나의 시료에서 추출된 핵산은 11종 PCR들에 같은 시간 및 조건으로 사용될 수 있으며, 각 병원체 특이 표적 DNA가 PCR 기질로 1000분자가 존재한다면, 해당 특이 PCR 증폭산물들은 정성적, 정량적으로 20분안에 성공적으로 증폭되었다. 우리가 제안하는 이 다중 PCR 검출법이 뒤영벌의 국제교역을 위한 검역검사에 사용되기를 기대한다.

• 한국양봉학회지
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• 제32권4호
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• pp.281-293
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• 2017

Sacbrood virus (SBV) is one of the main pathogenic RNA viruses of honeybee. SBV is found worldwide and many local strains have been reported, such as kSBV, cSBV, and wSBV. In this study, SBV-specific DNA fragments were cloned and sequenced by reverse-transcription PCR from 4 populations of A. mellifera, 4 sequences from 1 population belonged to the 2134D51 genotype (349 nucleotides, nt) and 12 sequences from 3 populations belonged to the 2100D0 genotype (400 nt) among the 16 determined sequences. A total of 87 points of mismatches were found by comparison with the most similar sequences in GenBank. Seventeen single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) were detected, and 6 SNP-patterns in the 2100D0 genotype and 2 SNP-patterns in the 2134D51 genotype were identified based on SNP positions. In SNP-pattern 2, 10 SNPs were detected, but only 2 SNPs were found in SNP-pattern7. Meanwhile, one SNP-pattern was found from one RNA-sample, multi SNP-patterns were detected from other RNA-samples. Large numbers of SNP variants indicate that vast numbers of point-mutations on SBV have occurred since SBV invaded Korea and that SNP smay have been introduced individually over time. Thorough analysis of SNP variants will not only define the local infection-route, but also the relationships between SNP-pattern and SBV-pathogenic abilities.

• 한국양봉학회지
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• 제34권1호
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• pp.27-37
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• 2019

Rapid detection of Tropilaelaps, an external parasite of honeybees that lead to malformation of honeybee or colony collapse disorder, is becoming important. But it is very difficult to find with the naked eye of Tropilaelaps. In this study, we have developed a method to detect the specific gene of Tropilaelaps from the hive debris and to know the number of Tropilaelaps in the hive through Tropilaelaps-specific quantitative detection. Tropilaelaps-specific gene amplified in DNA extracted from hive debris by consecutive PCR (1st detection, 2nd nested PCR). It could detect 101 molecules level of Tropilaelaps-specific gene and confirm the amplification of the Tropilaelaps-specific gene. It was possible to accurately quantify the number of Tropilaelaps from the hive debris sample, which is difficult to discriminate the presence of Tropilaelaps visually, through Tropilaelaps-specific detection. Under the microscope, Tropilaelaps was collected and quantitative detection of Tropilaelaps-specific genes was performed. It was possible to quantify the number of Tropilaelaps present in the hive through the molecules of the quantified Tropilaelaps-specific genes. We suggest that hive debris can represent as a micro-environment to hive and show that it can be a simpler and more accurate sample than using a parasitic host honeybee. We expect that hive debris should facilitate the monitoring of Tropilaelaps in hive.

• 한국양봉학회지
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• 제34권4호
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• pp.315-323
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• 2019

Large amounts of sludge produced by paper mill industries represent one of the most serious environmental problems in the world. Recently, beekeepers living in the neighborhood of the paper mill in Hwasan County, Youngcheon city, GB, Korea, became alarmed that honey bee colonies were dying off suddenly across the neighborhood. A preliminary study was conducted to evaluate the toxicity (oral, fumigation, repellent) of recycled solid paper mill sludge (SPMS) and leachate paper mill sludge (LPMS) to honey bee workers under laboratory conditions, and to analyze the volatile organic compounds(VOC). The SPMS and LPMS were separately subjected to a liquid-liquid extraction (LLE) at three temperatures to extract VOC(highest VOC yields: 1.52% SPMS and 0.34% LPMS). A total of 70 chemicals were detected in the VOC of paper mill sludges, of which 49 and 21 volatile organic compounds from SPMS and LPMS, respectively. The SPMS was dominated by high degree presence of stanols (saturated sterols), such as cholestanol, cholestan-3-ol and also saturated hydrocarbons. However, LPMS was characterized by the absence of sterols. Both SPMS and LPMS showed an influence on the olfactory behavior of honey bee on Y-tube assay, with repulsion rates of 72 and 68%, respectively. Both SPMS and LPMS at concentration of 100mg/mL caused higher honey bee oral mortality than the untreated controls at 48, 72, 96 and 120 hours after treatment(highest oral mortality at 120 hr: 85.74%(SPMS); 93.51 % (LPMS)). A similar pattern was observed when honey bees were tested to fumigant toxicity. Both SPMS and LPMS caused significant higher mortality than the untreated control 24 hour after the exposure (highest fumigation mortality at 120 hr: 69.4% (SPMS); 56.8% (LPMS)). These preliminary results indicated that paper mill sludge could be partly responsible for sudden death and disappearance of honey bees, especially in hot humid summer days. With climate change, the risk of environmental chemical exposure to honey bee would pose greater attention.