Isolated and diagnosis four fungi associated with wintering honeybee hives in Mosul and its environs Apis mellifera L. (Apidae-Hymenoptera)

Mohammed Salih Saeed, Mahdi

doi:10.58928/ku13.04210

	Isolated and diagnosis four fungi associated with wintering honeybee hives in Mosul and its environs Apis mellifera L. (Apidae-Hymenoptera)
Kirkuk University Journal for Agricultural Sciences (KUJAS)
Article 1, Volume 4, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 103-111 PDF (563.43 K)
Document Type: Research Paper
DOI: 10.58928/ku13.04210
Author
Mahdi Mohammed Salih Saeed
Abstract
The conducted study on five apiaries located in Mosul city and its environs appeared fungi infection to the wintering hives which belong to this species: Aspergillus flavus,Aspergillus niger,Penicillium notatum, Penicillium crysogenum, and these mentioned fungi damage the food content of the hives, and caused pollution and toxicity to internal bee hive air with fungal chonidia after purifying them and culturing in pure colonies for identifying and diagnosing of the fungi laboratory in the plant protection department, college of agriculcure and forestry/ Mosul university, The study also been the average number of high infection for hives frames and infection separately to these was to the hives which doen wintering to her hives by using poly ethelene sacs covering which give the mean 76.33% from apiary frames and the mean 0.710 respectively, and the lowest for the hives that used the goot sacs covering by the mean 17.00% and the mean 0.153 from apiary frames respectively, by examining the locations of these hives and the number of hives subjected to wintering and the average number of infection frames and infection separety of any infection apiary with this and the different wintering way to the infection happen .
Keywords
Fungi associated with wintering honeybee hives; The fungi and bee hives mould; Honeybees and the mould; Honeybees

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