Antimicrobial Activities of Nest Materials Dolichovespula saxonica (Fabricius,1793) (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) in Turkey

Year 2018, Volume: 10 Issue: 1, 9 - 14, 01.06.2018

Ömer Ertürk , Ceren Başkan , Zeynep Koleren

Abstract

Organization of bee societies for
many years is of interest to many study topic. In this study the antimicrobial
activity of diluted with ethanol five fraction nest was assayed in vitro by
agar disc diffusion method against 8 bacteria and 2 fungi species.

The ethanol extracts of almost
all the nest exhibited antibacterial antifungal activity towards one or another
bacterium against to all of microorganism used in this study. The maximum
antibacterial antifungal activity was shown by diluted 25 µL (2.5 mg), 20 µL (2
mg), followed by and 15 µL (1.5 mg), respectively. The antimicrobial activities
of the extracts of bees nest against bacteria were more effective than those
against fungi.

The obtained results show that
nest may be used as possible natural, antimicrobial agents to control various
human, animal and plant diseases.

Keywords

Dolichovespula saxonica, Wasps nests, Antimicrobial activity

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