The Effect of Varroa Gate Traps on Varroa Population in Van Ecological Conditions
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2019
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Varroa parazitinin kontrolünde kullanılan kültürel yöntemler kimyasal madde kullanmadan paraziti kontrol etme yöntemi olup paraziti yok etme yerine parazitin zararından korunmak için onu ekonomik zarar eşiğinin altında tutulmasını amaç edinmektedir. Bu amaçla yakın dönemde geliştirilen Varroa Kapısı Tuzağı üreticiler tarafından kullanılmaya başlanmıştır. Ancak etkinliği üzerine bilimsel bir belirleme bulunmamaktadır. Yürütülmesi planlanan araştırma ile Tuzağın koloni varroa populasyonu üzerine etkisi ortaya koyulmaya çalışılmıştır. Çalışmanın bal arısı materyalini 10 adet F1 Kafkas (Apis mellifera caucasıca) kolonisi oluşturmuştur. Tuzak takılmış 5 adet kolunu tuzaksız 5 adet kontrol grubu kolonisi ile karşılaştırılmış ve çalışma sonucunda gruplar arasındaki fark istatistik olarak önemli bulunmamıştır (p<0.05). Arı yetiştiriciliğinde önemli verim kayıplarına neden olan varroa ile mücadelede sentetik yöntemler yerine ürünlerde kalıntı sorunu oluşturmayan ve arı biyolojisine uygun uygulamalar tercih edilmelidir. Bu aşamada tuzak üzerine yeni araştırmaların yapılması yararlı olacaktır. Yürütülecek yeni araştırmaların kolonilerde kapalı yavru gözlerinin minimum olduğu erken ilkbahar ve geç sonbahar dönemlerinde daha fazla sayıda koloni ile planlanması gerekmektedir.
The cultural control of varroa parasites includes the method of controlling these parasites without the use of chemicals and aims to keep the parasites under the economic harm threshold instead of eliminating them. For this purpose, the recently developed Varroa Gate has been used by the producers. However, the efficiency of the Varroa Gate Traps is yet to be determined scientifically. The present study aimed to determine the impact of the traps on the Varroa population. The honey bee material included 10 F1 Caucasian (Apis mellifera caucasica) colonies in the study. The 5 colonies in gated hives were compared with the other 5 colonies in non-gated hives (control group) and it was determined that the difference between the groups was not statistically significant after the experiment (p <0.05). In the control of varroa, which leads to significant productivity losses in beekeeping, applications that do not cause residue problems in the product and are suitable for bee biology should be preferred instead of synthetic methods. Thus, further studies on Varroa gate traps applications should be conducted. Future studies should be conducted in early spring and late autumn seasons, when the closed offspring cells are minimal in the colonies, and with a higher number of colonies.
The cultural control of varroa parasites includes the method of controlling these parasites without the use of chemicals and aims to keep the parasites under the economic harm threshold instead of eliminating them. For this purpose, the recently developed Varroa Gate has been used by the producers. However, the efficiency of the Varroa Gate Traps is yet to be determined scientifically. The present study aimed to determine the impact of the traps on the Varroa population. The honey bee material included 10 F1 Caucasian (Apis mellifera caucasica) colonies in the study. The 5 colonies in gated hives were compared with the other 5 colonies in non-gated hives (control group) and it was determined that the difference between the groups was not statistically significant after the experiment (p <0.05). In the control of varroa, which leads to significant productivity losses in beekeeping, applications that do not cause residue problems in the product and are suitable for bee biology should be preferred instead of synthetic methods. Thus, further studies on Varroa gate traps applications should be conducted. Future studies should be conducted in early spring and late autumn seasons, when the closed offspring cells are minimal in the colonies, and with a higher number of colonies.
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