DOI: 10.36871 / vet.san.hyg.ecol.202102011
UDC 638.154.2
Authors
Isaev Yu. G.
Sotnikov A.N.
Gulyukin M.I.
Federal State Budget Scientific Institution «Federal Scientific Center –
K.I. Skryabin, Ya.R. Kovalenko All-Russian Research Institute of Experimental
Veterinary Medicine, Russian Academy of Sciences», Moscow, Russian Federation
Abstract
Live bees and queens are not tested for viral diseases of bees either in the countries
of the European Union or in the Russian Federation. In the Russian Federation,
viral diseases (sacbrood, acute and chronic paralysis) are quarantined, causing significant
damage due to the death of bees in the fall and in the first half of the winter.
Based on the data obtained in our study, currently the trade in cellular packages
is carried out by sick bees. The death rate of such imported bees in the first year
is up to 80%.
The article discusses the health of bees purchased by beekeepers in the form of
cellular packages from other regions, including from other states, and also provides
recommendations for preventing the introduction of certain quarantine diseases of
bees with relocated bee colonies. Trade in live bees during cross-border movement
should be carried out healthy from quarantine diseases, using in vivo diagnostics
in cell-free packages.
Keywords
honey bee, cross-border trade in bees, varroosis, sacbrood virus, quarantine diseases of bees.
