Honey bee (Apis mellifera) colony health and pathogen composition in migratory beekeeping operations involved in California almond pollination

dc.contributor.authorGlenny, William
dc.contributor.authorCavigli, Ian
dc.contributor.authorDaughenbaugh, Katie F.
dc.contributor.authorRadford, Rosemarie
dc.contributor.authorKegley, Susan E.
dc.contributor.authorFlenniken, Michelle L.
dc.date.accessioned2017-12-20T19:43:48Z
dc.date.available2017-12-20T19:43:48Z
dc.date.issued2017-08
dc.description.abstractHoney bees are important pollinators of agricultural crops. Pathogens and other factors have been implicated in high annual losses of honey bee colonies in North America and some European countries. To further investigate the relationship between multiple factors, including pathogen prevalence and abundance and colony health, we monitored commercially managed migratory honey bee colonies involved in California almond pollination in 2014. At each sampling event, honey bee colony health was assessed, using colony population size as a proxy for health, and the prevalence and abundance of seven honey bee pathogens was evaluated using PCR and quantitative PCR, respectively. In this sample cohort, pathogen prevalence and abundance did not correlate with colony health, but did correlate with the date of sampling. In general, pathogen prevalence (i.e., the number of specific pathogens harbored within a colony) was lower early in the year (January-March) and was greater in the summer, with peak prevalence occurring in June. Pathogen abundance in individual honey bee colonies varied throughout the year and was strongly associated with the sampling date, and was influenced by beekeeping operation, colony health, and mite infestation level. Together, data from this and other observational cohort studies that monitor individual honey bee colonies and precisely account for sampling date (i.e., day of year) will lead to a better understanding of the influence of pathogens on colony mortality and the effects of other factors on these associations.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipNational Institutes of Health IDeA Program COBRE grant GM110732, National Science Foundation EPSCoR NSF-IIA-1443108, Hatch Multistate Funding (NC-1173)en_US
dc.identifier.citationGlenny, William, Ian Cavigli, Katie F. Daughenbaugh, Rosemarie Radford, Susan E Kegley, and Michelle L Flenniken. "Honey bee (Apis mellifera) colony health and pathogen composition in migratory beekeeping operations involved in California almond pollination." PloS one 12, no. 8 (August 2017): 1-24. DOI:https://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0182814.en_US
dc.identifier.issn1932-6203
dc.identifier.urihttps://scholarworks.montana.edu/handle/1/14095
dc.titleHoney bee (Apis mellifera) colony health and pathogen composition in migratory beekeeping operations involved in California almond pollinationen_US
mus.citation.extentfirstpage1en_US
mus.citation.extentlastpage24en_US
mus.citation.issue8en_US
mus.citation.journaltitlePloS oneen_US
mus.citation.volume12en_US
mus.contributor.orcidFlenniken, Michelle L.|0000-0003-0356-3370en_US
mus.data.thumbpage4en_US
mus.identifier.categoryLife Sciences & Earth Sciencesen_US
mus.identifier.doi10.1371/journal.pone.0182814en_US
mus.relation.collegeCollege of Agricultureen_US
mus.relation.collegeCollege of Letters & Scienceen_US
mus.relation.departmentEcology.en_US
mus.relation.departmentPlant Sciences & Plant Pathology.en_US
mus.relation.universityMontana State University - Bozemanen_US

Files

Original bundle

Now showing 1 - 1 of 1
Thumbnail Image
Name:
Flenniken_PLoS_2017.pdf
Size:
3.27 MB
Format:
Adobe Portable Document Format
Description:
Honey bee (Apis mellifera) colony health and pathogen composition in migratory beekeeping operations involved in California almond pollination (PDF)

License bundle

Now showing 1 - 1 of 1
No Thumbnail Available
Name:
license.txt
Size:
826 B
Format:
Item-specific license agreed upon to submission
Description:
Copyright (c) 2002-2022, LYRASIS. All rights reserved.