Adsorption Model of Aerosolized Bacterial Spores (Bacillus subtilis Variety niger) Onto Free-Flying Honey Bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae) and its Validation

K. R. S. Prier; B. Lighthart; J. J. Bromenshenk

doi:10.1603/0046-225X-30.6.1188

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1 December 2001 Adsorption Model of Aerosolized Bacterial Spores (Bacillus subtilis Variety niger) Onto Free-Flying Honey Bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae) and its Validation

K. R. S. Prier, B. Lighthart, J. J. Bromenshenk

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Environmental Entomology, 30(6):1188-1194 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1603/0046-225X-30.6.1188

Abstract

It has been shown that honey bees (Apis mellifera L.) adsorb bacterial spores as a function of the electrostatic charge on the bee and concentration of bacteria in the aerosol during tethered flight in wind tunnel experiments. This report presents a mathematical model for predicting the number of spores that could be adsorbed onto free-flying bees passing through a bacterial spore aerosol plume/cloud and experimental validation of this model. The model accounts for the geometry of the aerosol dispersion from a continuous point source, aerosol particle settling, and adsorption and desorption rates onto/off of bees based on laboratory observations of tethered flying honey bees.

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K. R. S. Prier, B. Lighthart, and J. J. Bromenshenk "Adsorption Model of Aerosolized Bacterial Spores (Bacillus subtilis Variety niger) Onto Free-Flying Honey Bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae) and its Validation," Environmental Entomology 30(6), 1188-1194, (1 December 2001). https://doi.org/10.1603/0046-225X-30.6.1188

Received: 27 February 2001; Accepted: 1 August 2001; Published: 1 December 2001

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