Madras-Majewska Beata, Skonieczna Lucja
Apiculture Division, Institute of Animal Science, Warsaw University of Life Sciences, Nowoursynowska 166, 02-787 Warsaw, Poland.
Owner of the Breeding Apiary Sawa, Helenowska 22/28, 05-804 Pruszkow, Poland.
Animals (Basel). 2021 Apr 17;11(4):1156. doi: 10.3390/ani11041156.
The aim of this study was to investigate the diversification of morphological features of the Dark European honey bee of the Augustow M line. The authors studied the proboscis length and cubital index, as features determining the affiliation to the species; the width of tergite 4 and the sum of widths of tergites 3 + 4, as indicators of the bee body size; and the length and width of the right forewing. They compared bees sampled from (1) the "lead apiary", (2) "associate apiaries" and (3) "conservation area apiaries"-apiaries situated in the conservation area established by the national program for the conservation of genetic resources of this bee line. The conclusion was that it is possible to protect bees of the Augustow M line under the existing program, based on resources available to the lead, associate and conservation area apiaries. The bees studied have the essential features of the Dark European honey bee and the values of parameters tested are consistent with the morphological feature references valid for . On the other hand, based on the authors' research and on other studies described in literature of 1960s, there is a dwarfing trend in the Dark European honey bee of the Augustow M line.
本研究的目的是调查奥古斯托夫M系欧洲黑蜂形态特征的多样性。作者研究了喙长和肘脉指数，作为确定所属物种的特征；背板4的宽度以及背板3 + 4宽度之和，作为蜜蜂体型的指标；以及右前翅的长度和宽度。他们比较了从（1）“主蜂场”、（2）“副蜂场”和（3）“保护区蜂场”采集的蜜蜂——这些蜂场位于由该蜜蜂品系遗传资源保护国家计划设立的保护区内。结论是，根据主蜂场、副蜂场和保护区蜂场现有的资源，有可能在现有计划下保护奥古斯托夫M系蜜蜂。所研究的蜜蜂具有欧洲黑蜂的基本特征，所测试参数的值与有效的形态特征参考值一致。另一方面，根据作者的研究以及20世纪60年代文献中描述的其他研究，奥古斯托夫M系欧洲黑蜂存在体型变小的趋势。
