Open AccessEVALUATING SUSPICIONS OF INTOXICATION IN BEES IN 2018-2020
Author(s) -
V. Savu,
Agripina Şapcaliu,
Bogdan Tache,
Roxana Zaharia,
V. Lagunovschi-Luchian,
Luiza Bădic,
I. Rădoi
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
romanian journal for plant protection
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2248-129X
DOI - 10.54574/rjpp.13.06
Subject(s) - apiary , medicine , honey bee , biology , zoology
"The purpose of this work was to evaluate suspicions of intoxication in bees in 2018-2020. Bee healthwas monitored and samples were collected (live bees, dead bees, honey, pollen, hive fragments) from bee coloniesin apiaries located in various geographical areas of Romania. Corroborating the anamnetic data, morphoclinicalexaminations and laboratory tests, other causes of disease were excluded and the diagnosis was suspicion ofintoxication. During this period, 317 apiaries were monitored out of which 32 apiaries were identified to displaysuspicion of intoxication, out of which 4 apiaries in 2018, 18 apiaries in 2019 and 10 apiaries in 2020. Thesuspicion of intoxication diagnosis included 4079 bee colonies, out of which 1896 colonies were diagnosed in2018, 1582 in 2019 and 601 in 2020. The bee colonies under suspicion of intoxication were evaluated andcategorized as follows: toxic food intoxication 49.5% (2018), 34.07% (2019) and 14.31% (2020); chemicalsubstance intoxication 40% (2018), 59.6% (2019), 35.10% (2020) and medicine intoxication 10.5% (2018), 6.33% (2019) and 50.59 % (2020)."