Burzyan Wild-Hive Honeybee <i>A.M. mellifera</i> in South Ural

Il’yasov, R. S.; Kosarev, M. N.; Neal, Anita S.; Yumaguzhin, Fitrat

doi:10.1080/0005772x.2015.1047634

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“…Bee habitats were also transformed by forest clearing (De la Rua et al, 2009, Potts et al, 2010. Nevertheless, feral honey bees still colonize tree trunks and log hives world, including Poland (Seeley, 2007;Oleksa, Gawroński, & Tofilski, 2013;Ilyasov et al, 2015) or are specially introduced to preserve biodiversity. These bees are not managed by humans or treated for pathogens, and therefore many researchers and beekeepers believe that viral, bacterial, and parasitic diseases may lead to their decline (Sammataro, Gerson, & Needham, 2000;Moritz et al, 2010;Neumann & Carreck, 2010;Rosenkranz, Aumeier, & Ziegelmann, 2010;Martin et al, 2012;van Dooremalen et al, 2012).…”

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Lotmaria Passim As Third Parasite Gastrointestinal Tract of Honey Bees Living in Tree Trunk

Michalczyk

Bancerz‐Kisiel

Sokół

2020

Journal of Apicultural Science

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AbstractHoney bees (Apis mellifera L.) inhabiting trees in forests are not managed by humans or treated for pathogens; therefore, many researchers and beekeepers believe that viral, bacterial, and parasitic diseases may lead to their decline. The aim of the study was to evaluate the prevalence of L. passim and Nosema spp. in feral colonies by real-time PCR. This study was performed on twenty-six samples of honey bees inhabiting tree trunks in north-eastern Poland. One sample consisted of sixty worker bee abdomens collected from hollow trees. Honey bees were sampled only from naturally colonized sites. Amplicons of the three evaluated pathogens were detected in twenty of the twenty-six tested samples. A significant correlation was observed between infection with three pathogens (N. apis, N. ceranae, L. passim) (r = 0.84) compared to infection with only two pathogens (N. apis and N. ceranae) (r = 0.49). N. ceranae was the predominant pathogen, but infections with various severity caused by L. passim were also noted in fourteen of the twenty-six tested samples. In view of the general scarcity of epidemiological data concerning coinfections with Nosema spp. and L. passim in honey bees in tree trunks in other countries, further research is needed to confirm the effect of concurrent pathogenic infections on the decline of bee colonies.

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Lotmaria Passim As Third Parasite Gastrointestinal Tract of Honey Bees Living in Tree Trunk

Michalczyk

Bancerz‐Kisiel

Sokół

2020

Journal of Apicultural Science

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“…Records of wild honeybee colonies in tree cavities are mainly restricted to Northern Poland (Oleksa et al., ) and central Germany (Kohl & Rutschmann, ). Although wild colonies were also reported to colonize man‐made tree cavities in Southern Urals forests (Ilyasov, Kosarev, Neal, & Yumaguzhin, ) and suspected in France (Bertrand et al., 2015), Ireland, and Italy (Jaffé et al., ), there is a critical lack of field data on the presence of honeybee occupied tree cavities. Consequently, it is still unclear to what extent such tree cavities could support wild honeybee populations across Europe.…”

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Contribution of European forests to safeguard wild honeybee populations

Réquier

Paillet

Laroche³

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CONSERVATION LETTERS

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Recent studies reveal the use of tree cavities by wild honeybee colonies in European forests. This highlights the conservation potential of forests for a highly threatened component of the native entomofauna in Europe, but currently no estimate of potential wild honeybee population sizes exists. Here, we analyzed the tree cavity densities of 106 forest areas across Europe and inferred an expected population size of wild honeybees. Both forest and management types affected the density of tree cavities. Accordingly, we estimated that more than 80,000 wild honeybee colonies could be sustained in European forests. As expected, potential conservation hotspots were identified in unmanaged forests, and, surprisingly, also in other large forest areas across Europe. Our results contribute to the EU policy strategy to halt pollinator declines and reveal the potential of forest areas for the conservation of so far neglected wild honeybee populations in Europe. K E Y W O R D SApis mellifera, conservation, forest management, honeybees, native populations, protected forests, tree cav- ities, unmanaged broadleaved forestsThis is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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“…It is widely assumed that since the arrival of the mite, feral honey bee colonies were all but wiped out ( Moritz et al, 2007 ; De la Rúa et al, 2009 ; Meixner, Kryger & Costa, 2015 ). However, it has been reported that naturally nesting honey bees colonies are still abundant in large temperate woodlands in North America and the Southern Ural ( Seeley, 2007 ; Ilyasov et al, 2015 ), and they regularly occupy cavity trees along rural avenues in Northern Poland ( Oleksa, Gawroński & Tofilski, 2013 ). There are two reasons why we should reconsider the common perception about the status of honey bee colonies living wildly in Central Europe: different host-parasite ecology, and a simple lack of data.…”

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The neglected bee trees: European beech forests as a home for feral honey bee colonies

Kohl

Rutschmann

2018

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It is a common belief that feral honey bee colonies (Apis mellifera L.) were eradicated in Europe through the loss of habitats, domestication by man and spread of pathogens and parasites. Interestingly, no scientific data are available, neither about the past nor the present status of naturally nesting honeybee colonies. We expected near-natural beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) forests to provide enough suitable nest sites to be a home for feral honey bee colonies in Europe. Here, we made a first assessment of their occurrence and density in two German woodland areas based on two methods, the tracing of nest sites based on forager flight routes (beelining technique), and the direct inspection of potential cavity trees. Further, we established experimental swarms at forest edges and decoded dances for nest sites performed by scout bees in order to study how far swarms from beekeeper-managed hives would potentially move into a forest. We found that feral honey bee colonies regularly inhabit tree cavities in near-natural beech forests at densities of at least 0.11–0.14 colonies/km2. Colonies were not confined to the forest edges; they were also living deep inside the forests. We estimated a median distance of 2,600 m from the bee trees to the next apiaries, while scout bees in experimental swarms communicated nest sites in close distances (median: 470 m). We extrapolate that there are several thousand feral honey bee colonies in German woodlands. These have to be taken in account when assessing the role of forest areas in providing pollination services to the surrounding land, and their occurrence has implications for the species’ perception among researchers, beekeepers and conservationists. This study provides a starting point for investigating the life-histories and the ecological interactions of honey bees in temperate European forest environments.

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Burzyan Wild-Hive Honeybee A.M. mellifera in South Ural

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Lotmaria Passim As Third Parasite Gastrointestinal Tract of Honey Bees Living in Tree Trunk

Lotmaria Passim As Third Parasite Gastrointestinal Tract of Honey Bees Living in Tree Trunk

Contribution of European forests to safeguard wild honeybee populations

The neglected bee trees: European beech forests as a home for feral honey bee colonies

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