Honeybee (Apis mellifera) Diseases in Turkey

Beekeping has an important place in our country. Many diseases are seen in bees since the developmental period of bee create an appropriate environment for most diseases. Numerous pathogens can cause disease in both developmental and adult periods of bees. The parasitic, bacterial, viral and fungus oriented diseases encountered in honeybees (Apis mellifera) have importance from the point of sector. Therefore many studies have been conducted on detecting these diseases in our country. In this article, the studies about bee diseases and their ways of spread in Turkey until today are presented collectively. It is considered that this study, which is presented by bringing together these researches conducted in different regions of our country, will provide literature support for future researches in the area of beekeeping and will also provide insight into recognition of the existence of bee diseases in their regions for the beekeepers. In conducted studies; positive results ranging between 6.2-100% for varroosis, 0-100% for nosemosis and American foul brood, 0-28% for European foul brood, 0-5.86% for stone brood, 0-79.59% for chalk brood and 3-14.7% for wax moth were determined. However, Sacbrood and Acarapis woodi could not be detected in the aforementioned studies.