Marco PietropaoliL'Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale del Lazio e Toscana · Beekeeping laboratory
Marco Pietropaoli
Master Bee Pathology and Apidology 2nd level
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Introduction
Marco Pietropaoli currently works at the Beekeeping laboratory of Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale del Lazio e Toscana.
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December 2019 - November 2021
Education
January 2011 - February 2013
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Publications (59)
American foulbrood (AFB) and European foulbrood (EFB) are the two most important bacterial diseases that affect honey bee brood. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of an integrated treatment of AFB and EFB in naturally infected colonies in spring, using the beekeeping technique partial shook swarm combined with oxytetracycline treatm...
Here, we present the results of an online international survey concerning the adoption of good beekeeping practices and proper biosecurity measures for the management of varroosis in Apis mellifera. The survey was designed as a risk assessment tool by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the International Federation of...
We tested two summer protocols for oxytetracycline (OTC) administration on beehives to evaluate: toxicity for the bees, residues in honey and presence of genes encoding for OTC antibiotic resistance in bacteria isolated from the gut of adult bees. In July 2020, eighteen healthy colonies were divided into three groups. Two OTC treatment protocols -...
Circular economic principals of production are based on material flows through the system with minimum external inputs, recycling of resources, generating minimum waste, emissions, or pollution. Agriculture presents a major opportunity for the utilization of wastes, by‐products and co‐products in the development of a circular economy via the design...
Acarapis woodi is a pathogen affecting honey bees health worldwide. Its prevalence may be underestimated due to the time-consuming traditional method for its diagnosis and the attitude in focusing the attention only onto Varroa destructor. New PCR techniques have allowed for the verification of the presence of A. woodi in 44 samples of honey bees a...
American and European Foulbrood (AFB and EFB) are considered the most contagious infectious diseases affecting honeybees worldwide. New sustainable strategies need to be implemented for their prevention and control, and probiotics may represent one solution to investigate. In our study, we evaluated the efficacy of one strain of Lactobacillus plant...
The beekeeping sector is facing many challenges. One of the greatest is maintaining healthy colonies that produce high-quality products without any residues of veterinary medicines and with low environmental impact. The main enemy is the ectoparasitic mite Varroa destructor, the most significant honeybee pest and a key factor in high colony losses...
Beekeepers need reliable protocols to keep the Varroa infestation to sustainable levels. The goal of our study was to verify if a treatment consisting in the association of two organic acids, commonly used to control Varroa, could be a good strategy to boost their acaricide efficacy without affecting honey bee colonies' survival. We carried out a f...
Different brood interruption methods combined with chemical treatment may successfully remove most V. destructor from the honey bee colonies. Further, the timely brood reduction or break may positively impact nectar intake and is occasionally used by beekeepers during the main spring flow to increase honey production. However, the experience and da...
Aethina tumida (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae - Small Hive Beetle - SHB), is a parasite of honey bee colonies that causes the notifiable disease called aethinosis. In 2014, SHB was detected in Southern Italy, where it is still present (Calabria region). As part of surveillance activities, official diagnosis of the disease is performed by veterinary servi...
VarroMed® is a soft acaricide registered for honey bees on the European Union market since 2017 for Varroa control. Researchers involved were partners of different countries of the Varroa control task force of the COLOSS Association. Our goal was to evaluate performances (acaricide efficacy and toxic effects on honey bees) of VarroMed® in different...
Given the consolidated circulation of Aethina tumida (SHB) in Reggio Calabria and Vibo Valentia provinces of Calabria region (Southern Italy), the need for a more effective and less time-consuming approach to SHB surveillance emerged. Accordingly, honeybee sentinel colonies were established in the infested areas under the supervision and management...
VarroMed® is a soft acaricide registered for honey bees on the European Union market since 2017 for Varroa control. Researchers involved were partners of different countries of the Varroa control task force of COLOSS Association. Our goal was to evaluate performances (acaricide efficacy and toxic effects on honey bees) of VarroMed® in different cli...
VarroMed® is a soft acaricide registered for honey bees on the European Union market since 2017 for Varroa control. Researchers involved were partners of different countries of the Varroa control task force of COLOSS Association. Our goal was to evaluate performances (acaricide efficacy and toxic effects on honey bees) of VarroMed® in different cli...
Assessment of colony infestation by Varroa destructor is a crucial part of the Integrated
Pest Management (IPM) applied to beekeeping. Natural mite fall, quantified by counting the mites on sticky sheets, is considered a reference method to estimate varroa infestation level in honey bee colonies. However, in recent years, alternative methods that c...
Emerging pathogens of honey bees represent an important threat to the development of the beekeeping sector. The implementation of biosecurity measures in beekeeping (BMBs) plays an essential role in supporting honey bee health within the beekeeping sector. A group of experts, in collaboration with the BPRACTICES (Grant Agreement No. 696231, Europea...
Emerging pathogens of honey bees represent an important threat to the development of the beekeeping sector. The implementation of biosecurity measures in beekeeping (BMBs) plays an essential role in supporting honey bee health within the beekeeping sector. A group of experts, in collaboration with the BPRACTICES (Grant Agreement No. 696231, Europea...
Most Varroa induced colony losses occur during the autumn or winter season as a consequence of an elevated Varroa infestation level and an insufficient health status of the adult bees. Even with an initial low Varroa infestation in early spring, critical mite and virus infection levels can be reached before winter if colonies continuously rear broo...
Modern European beekeeping is facing numerous challenges due to a variety of factors, mainly related to globalisation, agrochemical pollution and environmental changes. In addition to this, new pathogens threaten the health of European honey bees. In that context, correct colony management should encompass a wider vision, where productivity aspects...
The replacement of synthetic acaricides with organic treatments is a big challenge in modern beekeeping. In summer 2015, we carried out in Central Italy a study to compare the varroacide efficacy and the toxicity on honey bees of the formic acid evaporator Nassenheider Professional® with two new formic acid-based gel formulations: MAQS® and Varterm...
The health status of the honey bee populations has attracted a great amount of interest in recent years. We investigated honey bee health in five natural protected areas in Italy from October 2009 to December 2010. Areas were selected to represent a wide range of bio‑geographical zones including alpine, continental, and Mediterranean. Within each o...
We verified the acaricide efficacy on Varroa destructor and the toxicity on honey bees of summer treatments carried out in three different apiaries in Central Italy with an evaporator filled with 290 ml of formic acid 60%. Acaricide efficacy was evaluated counting the number of mites killed by the application of formic acid in the evaporator accord...
Guaranteeing high acaricide efficacy to control Varroa destructor is fundamental for colony survival. In this study, we verified the efficacy and impact of a commercial thymol-based veterinary product (Apiguard®) on colony honey bee populations when used alone or combined with the biotechnical method of caging honey bee queens to create an artifici...
L'applicazione della lotta integrata da parte degli apicoltori assume una fondamentale importanza nella gestione degli alveari per contrastare questa patologia. E' infatti noto che i trattamenti a base di acido ossalico non riescano ad interessare le varroe che si trovano all'interno delle cellette di covata opercolata; per questo motivo i trattame...
INTRODUZIONE La lotta alla varroa realizzata mediante prodotti a basso impatto ambientale (acidi organici, timolo) può essere as-sociata a specifiche tecniche apistiche al fine di ottenere una maggiore effi-cacia acaricida. Tra tali tecniche è pos-sibile annovevare: l'asportazione dei favi di covata, l'utilizzo di telaini trap-pola -ad esempio, il...
Il tecnico apistico svolge un ruolo di supporto che potrebbe risultare fondamentale sia per i singoli apicoltori sia per le associazioni che per i veterinari ed i diversi Enti operanti nel settore apistico. Con il presente articolo si cerca di illustrare ed approfondire tale figura, ad oggi poco delineata dal punto di vista del bagaglio formativo c...
Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Regioni Lazio e Toscana -Via Appia Nuova, 1411 -00178 Roma (Italia) giovanni.formato@izslt.it Indicaciones prácticas sobre el enjaulado de la reina 1.-La elección de la jaula: En el comercio están disponibles distintos tipos de jaulas tales como: la jaula Var-Control ® (Api-Mo.Bru) (Fig. 1); la jaula Scal...
Introduzione Al fine di analizzare il fenomeno della moria delle api e di individuare le sue possibili cause (Bellucci et al., 2008), ad ISPRA è stato affidato il coordina-mento di un indagine tecnico-conoscitiva all'inter-no di alcune aree naturali protette. Tale indagine è stata promossa e finanziata dalla Direzione Salva-guardia ambientale del M...
Introduzione La Regione Toscana, attraverso il Dipartimento dello Sviluppo Economico ha promosso nel 2009, in seguito a numerose riunioni preliminari, un pro-getto biennale di monitoraggio regionale dello stato di salute delle api. Tale progetto, chiamato "APE-NET-Toscana", è coordinato dall'Istituto Zooprofi-lattico Sperimentale delle Regioni Lazi...
RIASSUNTO Nosema ceranae è un fungo unicellulare (microsporidio) che è stato chiamato in cauusa per spiegare fenomeni di spopolamento degli alveari. Questa malattia, è per molti aspetti ancora poco conosciuta e, soprattutto, non sono noti protocolli terapeutici per contrastarla. Api Herb® e Vita Feed Gold® sono prodotti naturali in vendita in Itali...
1 Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Regioni Lazio e Toscana 2 Az. USL RM/D -Servizio Veterinario argomento del mese Occhiello Il naturale rapporto che lega il mondo dell'apicoltura con quello dell'agricoltura purtroppo raramente si concretizza in un confronto collaborativo tra apicoltori ed agricoltori. Infatti gli imprenditori agricoli c...
Per maggiori informazioni sull'articolo contattare <giovanni.formato@izslt.it> ricerca e sperimentazione 1 In particolare, per la valutazione dell'efficacia e della tollerabilità sulle api, la ditta produttrice Chemicals Laif ha commissionato al CRA-API due prove sul campo, una in estate (blocco di covata indotto) e una in inverno (blocco di covata...
GENNAIO 2012 3 Introduzione Attualmente esistono in commercio di-versi dispositivi per la somministrazione di acido ossalico in forma sublimata. È importante sapere che l'efficacia acarici-da finale dipenderà dal tipo di sublimato-re impiegato. Il presente studio riassume i risultati di tre diverse prove di campo, realizzate negli anni 2008 e 2009,...
INTRODUZIONE Il rischio che coleotteri di origine al-loctona come il Nitidulide Aethina tumida Murray, 1867 possano diffon-dersi ed attaccare gli alveari in Europa ha comportato la predisposizione di controlli obbligatori su tutto il mate-riale apistico importato da paesi terzi. Oltre alle misure preventive ufficiali, per tutti coloro che operano n...
INTRODUZIONE L'Israeli Acute Paralysis Virus (IAPV) è un virus delle api che è stato rinvenuto per la prima volta in Israele nel 2004 (Maori et al., 2007a; Maori et al., 2007b). Le api colpite dal virus IAPV possono mostrare evidenti segni clinici quali: anomali tremori delle ali e para-lisi progressiva fino a pervenire a morte al di fuori dell'alv...
Pratiche Apistiche (BPA) consistono in una serie di interventi messi in atto dall'apicoltore per garan-tire la sanità delle api e la salubrità del miele prodotto (Formato e Pradella, 2010). Come noto, in Italia non è consentito impiegare antibiotici per la cura di malattie delle api quali la peste americana, la peste europea o la nose-miasi ed agli...
Varroa destructor is the mite responsible for the most serious disease of honey bees: the varroatosis. Considering the difficulty of eradicating this ectoparasite, the only way to permit bee colonies survival is to contain its population.
Replacing the traditional use of synthetic acaricides, nowadays it is preferred to adopt management strategies...
INTRODUZIONE La possibilità di impiegare l'acido for-mico in apicoltura per la lotta alla varroa è nota da tempo (Fries, 1991; Ostermann & Currie, 2004). Il prodotto Mite Away Quick Strips (MAQS™), attualmente in fase di registrazione in UK e già autorizzato in Canada e negli USA per la lotta alla varroa, è caratterizzato dal posse-dere acido formi...
A partire dal mese di maggio del 2009 è stata promossa dal Ministero dell´Ambiente e della Tutela del Territorio e del Mare un’indagine all’interno di cinque aree naturali protette (Parco Nazionale delle Dolomiti Bellunesi (PNDB, Veneto),Parco dei Gessi bolognesi e dei Calanchi dell’Abbadessa (PGBCA, Emilia Romagna),Parco di Migliarino San Rossore...
INTRODUZIONE Il principale obiettivo delle norme di igiene è quello di for-nire il livello più elevato possibile di sicurezza per i consu-matori. Gli allevatori e gli altri operatori del settore alimen-tare hanno un fondamentale livello di responsabilità nel ga-rantire la sicurezza degli alimenti da loro prodotti. Per ga-rantire la sicurezza degli...
In terms of food safety in honey production, every phase of the food chain must be considered, farming stage included. The importance of primary production is emphasized in EU legislation; in detail, White Paper on Food Safety, Regulation EC/178/2002 and Regulation EC/852/2004 provide many references to the key role of primary production in food sa...
Projects
Project (1)
https://www.insignia-bee.eu/
INSIGNIA is an innovative project which will build on the wide range of expertise of the applicants developed during previous projects such as the COLOSS “CSI Pollen project”. INSIGNIA involves the development of a protocol for a citizen science monitoring programme using beekeepers to collect biweekly pollen samples from honeybee colonies for analysis for pesticide residues and botanical origin. In the first year, in four EU member states representing all authorisation zones, monitoring using the well-established technique for collecting pollen samples using pollen traps, will be compared with two innovative techniques: the collection of beebread using a novel sampling device, and the use of passive in-hive sampling devices.
The sampling sites chosen will embrace different land uses, providing a contrasting range of expected pesticide exposure. Since pollen is a biological material subject to very rapid decay, and hence degradation of any chemical residues contained within it, a variety of different methods for sample storage and transport will also be compared. The samples obtained will be analysed for residues of agricultural pesticides and veterinary products, both authorised and unauthorised, as well as identification of botanical origin, using state of the art molecular techniques. In the second year of the project, the most suitable and economical methods identified in the first year will be more extensively tested in a monitoring programme carried out in sentinel apiaries in nine EU Member states. The results of the monitoring programme will then be combined with geospatial land use data including the CORINE database, in order to develop models of plant biodiversity and pesticide exposure for honeybees, which will enable pesticide contamination to be linked to crop and other plants. The extrapolation of the results to other pollinators will also be assessed, in order to contribute to the implementation of European environmental legislation.