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Exploring a treatment strategy for long-term increase of varroa tolerance on Marmara Island, Turkey

dc.contributor.authorFuchs, Stefan
dc.contributor.buuauthorÇakmak, İbrahim
dc.contributor.departmentArıcılık Geliştirme Uygulama ve Araştırma Merkezi
dc.contributor.researcheridAAH-2558-2021
dc.contributor.scopusid57207796431
dc.date.accessioned2023-05-04T12:47:53Z
dc.date.available2023-05-04T12:47:53Z
dc.date.issued2013
dc.description.abstractWe explored practical steps to implement a sustainable treatment against Varroa destructor which is adapted to common beekeeping situations, and applies conventional control but nevertheless exerts selection pressure towards increased mite tolerance in honey bees. This approach approximates conditions of natural selection in host-parasite systems, and is supported by evidence that the impact of V. destructor decreases when bee populations are overexploited by the parasites. However, instead of a "live or let die" approach to selection, which is not feasible for commercial beekeeping, death of highly infested colonies was mimicked by treatment and requeening. We established a feasible treatment threshold based on powder sugar shaking of worker bee samples in 250 colonies kept by four beekeepers on the island of Marmara, Turkey. We subsequently requeened heavily infested colonies with queens from lightly infested colonies using simple methods. We found that although one third of the colonies were routinely left untreated, it was possible to decrease mean mite infestation levels and maintain a stable bee population in our apiaries.
dc.description.sponsorshipGerman Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection (BMELV) through the Federal Agency for Agriculture and Nutrition (BLE) (2808UM003)
dc.identifier.citationÇakmak, İ. ve Fuchs, S. (2013). “Exploring a treatment strategy for long-term increase of varroa tolerance on Marmara Island, Turkey”. Journal of Apicultural Research, 52(5), 242-250.
dc.identifier.endpage250
dc.identifier.issn0021-8839
dc.identifier.issn2078-6913
dc.identifier.issue5
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-84892760936
dc.identifier.startpage242
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.3896/IBRA.1.52.5.11
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11452/32555
dc.identifier.volume52
dc.identifier.wos000327936200011
dc.indexed.wosSCIE
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherTaylor and Francis
dc.relation.collaborationYurt dışı
dc.relation.journalJournal of Apicultural Research
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess
dc.subjectEntomology
dc.subjectVarroa destructor
dc.subjectApis mellifera
dc.subjectTreatment
dc.subjectSelection for tolerance
dc.subjectAfricanized honey-bees
dc.subjectApis-melliferal l.
dc.subjectParasitic mite
dc.subjectDestructor
dc.subjectJacobsoni
dc.subjectColonies
dc.subjectResistance
dc.subjectSurvival
dc.subjectHymenoptera
dc.subjectAdaptation
dc.subject.scopusVarroidae; Honey Bee Colonies; Apis Mellifera
dc.subject.wosEntomology
dc.titleExploring a treatment strategy for long-term increase of varroa tolerance on Marmara Island, Turkey
dc.typeArticle
dc.wos.quartileQ2
dspace.entity.typePublication
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