Survey and documentation of sacbrood virus attacking Indian honeybee, Apis cerana indica, Fabricius in Tamil Nadu Tamilnayagan T., Srinivasan M.R.*, Saravanan P.A., Muthusamy M., Selvarajan R.1 Department of Agricultural Entomology, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore-641 003 (T.N.) 1Division of Plant Virology, National Research Centre for Banana, Tiruchirappalli-621 007 (T.N.) (India) *mrsrini@tnau.ac.in
Online published on 9 August, 2019. Abstract A survey was conducted in major beekeeping regions located in different parts of Tamil Nadu during 2017–18 and 2018–19. A total of 1412 colonies were examined in six major beekeeping regions. In the present study, 320 colonies in summer months and 354 colonies in winter months of the year 2017–18 were observed. In the same way, 343 colonies in summer months and 394 colonies in winter months were studied during the year 2018–19. The results of the survey revealed that the mean % disease incidence of AcSBV was 12.7 in summer months and 5.6% in winter months in the year of 2017–18. During, 2018–19, the mean % infection of AcSBV was 7.7 in summer and 4.6% in winter. Top Keywords Apis cerana indica, Sacbrood virus, Survey. Top |