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ASIAN APICULTURAL ASSOCIATION The Membership fee for AAA is $20 per year which includes four issues of Beekeeping and Development with additional supplements published by AAA.
AAA will present information on Asian beekeeping
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and honey bee science in Beekeeping and Development, and release more personal or local information in the supplements
People in the countries listed below where there are AAA Chapters please send $20 or equivalent to the Chapter. People living outside these countries send $20 directly to the Administrative Office through one of these channels
Post giro: Tokyo 8-552675. Asian Apicultural Association
Bank account: 228-065! 192 Asian Apicultural Association. Mitsubishi Bank, Machida Branch. Coupon responsé: Send 30 coupon-responsé international to the Institute of Honeybee Science
Administrative office: AAA, Institute of Honeybee Science, Tamagawa University, Machida-Shi, Tokyo 194, Japan Readers in Asia are welcome to recruit people and form new Chapters of AAA in their own countries
Ocim® Chapters of Country
AAA
have now been established in the following countries:
Representative
Chinese Apicultural Association. Xiangshan, Beijing
China India
Address
The Director Dr Vinod K Mattu
DrC C Reddy
Central Bee Research Institute, Khadi & Village Industries Commission, 1153 Ganeshkhind Road, Pune 411 016 Department of Bio-Sciences. Himachal Pradesh University. Shimia 171 005 Department of Zoology, Bangalore University, |naha Bharati. Bangalore 560 056
Indonesia
Ms S Hadisoesilo
PO Box 4/BKN Bangkinang 28401. Riau. Sumatra
Korea
Dr Kun-Suk Woo
Institute of Korea Beekeeping Science. College of Agriculture, Seou! National University, Suwon 440 744 Institute of Agricultural Science & Technology, Kyungpook National University, Taegu 635
Dr Hyonge-Gyun Park
Malaysia
Dr
Nepal
Mr Krishna K Shrestha
Beekeeping Training & Extension Support Project. Godawari Kathmandu
Pakistan
Dr Rafiq Ahmad
Pakistan Agricultural Research Council, NARC, PO NIH, Islamabad
Philippines
Dr Cleofas R Cervancia
Department of Entomology. College of Agriculture, University of the Philippines at Los Banos, College, Laguna
Sri Lanka
Mr R W K Punchihewa
Agricultural Research Station, Makandura, Gonawila (NWP)
Taiwan
Dr F K Hseih
Taiwan Apicultural and Serciultural Experiment Station. 261 Kuan-nan, Kung-Kuan, Miaoli
Thailand
Dr Sirtwat Wongsiri
BBRU, Department of Biology, Chulalongkorn University. Bangkok 10330
Vietnam
Mr Pham Van Lap
Department of Genetics, Faculty of Biology, University of Hanoi, Hanoi
MH
Muid
Plant Protection Department, Faculty of Agriculture, University Pertanian, 43400 Serdang. Selangor
LIGHT TRAPS KILL HONEY BEES Light traps are used commonly in coconut plantations to trap insect pests of cocoanut. Our studies used a conventional light trap, set at 1.5 mheight with a 100 W bulb for a period of six months from July to December in a coconut plantation. We found that rather than the Coleopteran pests of palms for which the traps are intended, the traps caught beneficial bio-control agents like parasitoids. and pollinating and productive insects like honey bees. The major pollinator and productive insect in South India, the Indian honey bee Apis cerana was found trapped to a great extent, with up to 90 worker bees trapped in one night
Since light traps in the coconut plantation did not attract the major insect pests of coconut but did trap honey bees and other bio-control agents of Lepidopteran pests, the setting of light traps in coconut plantations should be discouraged. it is important to note that the presence of honey bee colonies in coconut plantations increases female flower (button) setting and ultimately the coconut yields.
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G D Naidu Agricultural University
