Pests of Honeybee Colonies (Apis mellifera) in Türkiye: Focus on Aethina tumida (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae, Latreille 1802)

Ali Tümay Gürler; Rahşan Akpinar; Yunus Bayram; Erkan Taçbaş; Ramazan Bülbül; Muharrem Satilmiş; Erdem Danyer; Hatice Içyeroglu; Özhan Türkyilmaz; Yasemin Coşkun; Hasan Tahsin Öztokat; Halil Uzun; Alper Sezgin; Birsel Münevver Demir; Gamze Erdurmuş; Yasemin Güller; Selçuk Ulusoy; Hasan Hüseyin Oruç

doi:10.13102/sociobiology.v72i1.11350

Authors

Ali Tümay Gürler Ondokuz Mayıs University, Samsun, Turkey https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8092-1245
Rahşan Akpinar T.C Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, Samsun Veterinary Control Institute, Honeybee Diseases Laboratory, Samsun, Turkey https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0075-9247
Yunus Bayram T.C. Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, General Directorate of Food and Control, Ankara, Turkey https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9057-2739
Erkan Taçbaş T.C. Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, General Dırectorate of Agrıcultural Research Policies, Ankara, Turkey https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6660-5772
Ramazan Bülbül T.C. Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, General Dırectorate of Agrıcultural Research Policies, Ankara, Turkey https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5197-2163
Muharrem Satilmiş https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0003-410X
Erdem Danyer T.C. Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, Veterinary Control Central Research Institute, Ankara, Turkey https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7922-7384
Hatice Içyeroglu T.C. Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, Elazığ Veterinary Control Institute, Elazığ, Turkey https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4024-3798
Özhan Türkyilmaz T.C. Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, İzmir Bornova Veterinary Control Institute, İzmir, Turkey https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9330-342X
Yasemin Coşkun T.C. Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, İzmir Bornova Veterinary Control Institute, İzmir, Turkey https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4387-0941
Hasan Tahsin Öztokat T.C. Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, İzmir Bornova Veterinary Control Institute, İzmir, Turkey https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9309-367X
Halil Uzun T.C. Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, İzmir Bornova Veterinary Control Institute, İzmir, Turkey https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1514-0116
Alper Sezgin T.C. Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, Istanbul Pendik Veterinary Control Institute, Istanbul, Turkey https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1562-6877
Birsel Münevver Demir T.C. Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, Istanbul Pendik Veterinary Control Institute, Istanbul, Turkey https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1702-1241
Gamze Erdurmuş T.C. Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, General Dırectorate of Plant Protection Central Research Institute, Ankara, Turkey https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1659-2624
Yasemin Güller T.C. Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, General Dırectorate of Plant Protection Central Research Institute, Ankara, Turkey https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7431-1341
Selçuk Ulusoy T.C. Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, Biological Control Research Institute, Adana, Turkey https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2278-8471
Hasan Hüseyin Oruç Bursa Uludağ University, Bursa, Turkey https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5399-2395

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.13102/sociobiology.v72i1.11350

Keywords:

Aethina tumida, pests, honeybee, Türkiye

Abstract

Various bee pests cause yield losses in honey bees and/or hive collapse. The most important is the small hive beetle (Aethina tumida), which has become one of the biggest problems of today's beekeeping. The national study investigated small hive beetles in honey bee hives for the first time in Türkiye. In addition, the distribution of moths, oil beetles, and bee lice was examined. As research material, worker bee and honeycomb samples were taken from 401 apiaries in 40 provinces throughout Türkiye. A total of 1199 healthy hives were examined parasitologically in terms of larvae and adult forms of bee pests. It has been observed that no adult small hive beetle, however, pest larvae were found in 13 hives. After morphological examination, all larval forms were identified as the great wax moth, Galleria mellonella. In conclusion, the small hive beetle, which is spreading rapidly worldwide, has not yet been found in Türkiye. Therefore, Türkiye has not yet posed a threat to the pest to spread to Eastern Europe or Central Asia.

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