A National Survey of Managed Honey Bee Colony Winter Losses (Apis mellifera) in China (2013-2017)

文献类型： 外文期刊

第一作者： Tang, Jiao

作者： Tang, Jiao;Shi, Wei;Chen, Xiao;Liu, Zhiguang;Wang, Huihua;Chen, Chao;Ma, Cuiyan

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关键词： colony winter losses; Apis mellifera; China

期刊名称：DIVERSITY-BASEL （ 影响因子：2.465； ）

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年卷期： 2020 年 12 卷 9 期

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收录情况： SCI

摘要： Surveys of managed honey bee colony losses worldwide have become fundamental for engineering a sustainable and systematic approach to protect honey bees. Though China is a member of the world's apiculture superpowers, the investigation of honey bee colony losses from Chinese government was not formally launched until recently. In this study, we investigated the colony winter losses of the western honey bee (Apis mellifera) of four consecutive years in 2013-2017 from 19 provinces in China, with a total of 2387 responding Chinese beekeepers (195 hobby beekeepers, 1789 side-line beekeepers, 403 commercial beekeepers) providing the records of overwintering mortality of honey bee colonies. The calculated colony losses were 8.7%, a relatively low mortality below the world average. There still exist considerable variations in total losses among provinces (ranging from 0.9% to 22.0%), years (ranging from 8.1% to 10.6%) and scales of apiaries (ranging from 7.5% to 10.0%). Furthermore, we deeply analyzed and estimated the effects of potential risk factors on the colonies' winter losses, and speculated that the queen problems, the operation sizes and proportion of new queens are leading causes of the high honey bee colony mortality in China. More research and advanced technical methods are still required for correlation analysis and verification in future surveys of managed honey bee colony winter losses.

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