Beekeeping practice typical of commercial apiculture hugely influences the honeybee’s vitality and health. In commercial apiaries it prevents natural selection which improves the innate bee resistance. In this research it is planned to investigate whether there are differences in the occurrence of important brood and adult bee pathogens between hives kept in commercial and traditional way. In addition to this, in adult bees the parameters of oxidative stress will be assessed: the activities of superoxide dismutase (SOD), catalase (CAT) and glutathione S-transferase (GST), and the levels of malondialdehyde (MDA). Data obtained from such research are yet to be known. The research will be conducted on bees kept in 120 commercial bee hives of Dadant-Blatt (DB) type and 24 traditional primitive, so-called trmka hives on the Pešter Plateau. Brood samples from all hives will be analysed for bee brood disease pathogens (Paenibacillus larvae, Melissococcus plutonius, Ascosphaera apis and sacbrood virus – SBV). In adult bee samples the occurrence of their pathogens will be detected (deformed wing virus – DWV, chronic bee paralysis virus - CBPV, acute bee paralysis virus– ABPV and Nosema sp.) as well as Lotmaria passim and Crithidia mellificae
Tarić et al. (Mon,) studied this question.