Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Varroa destructor, the Varroa mite, is an external parasitic mite that attacks and feeds on honey bees and is one of the most damaging honey bee pests in the world. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] A significant mite infestation leads to the death of a honey bee colony, usually in the late autumn through early spring.
Varroa destructor Anderson & Trueman, 2000 [8] – a virulent parasite that infests its natural host, Apis cerana (Asian honey bees), in mainland Asia and Apis mellifera (western honey bee) worldwide. Varroa jacobsoni Oudemans, 1904 [1] [2] – a relatively benign parasite of Apis cerana. Varroa rindereri de Guzman & Delfinado-Baker, 1996 [19] [20]
Varroa jacobsoni is a species of mite that parasitises Apis cerana (Asian honey bees). The more damaging Varroa destructor was previously included under the name V. jacobsoni , but the two species can be separated on the basis of the DNA sequence of the cytochrome oxidase I gene in the mitochondrial DNA .
Varroa destructor on the head of bee pupa. Varroa sensitive hygiene (VSH) is a behavioral trait of honey bees (Apis mellifera) in which bees detect and remove bee pupae that are infested by the parasitic mite Varroa destructor. V. destructor is considered to be the most dangerous pest problem for honey bees worldwide. VSH activity results in ...
Varroa destructor and V. jacobsoni are parasitic mites that feed on the fat bodies of adult, pupal and larval bees. When the hive is very heavily infested, Varroa mites can be seen with the naked eye as a small red or brown spot on the bee's thorax. Varroa mites are carriers for many viruses that are damaging to bees.
Later, he published the V. destructor (formerly classified as Varroa jacobsoni) article in Austria and France. When, in 1980, the mite Varroa destructor was detected in Poland, and later causing death of many bee colonies and no satisfactory treatment had yet been found, Jeliński vastly contributed to the testing of Apiwarol AS – amitraz and ...
Slow bee paralysis virus (SBPV) is a virus discovered in England in 1974 [1] that infects honeybees (Apis mellifera), bumblebees [2] (Bombis spp.), and silkworms (Bombyx mori) through Varroa destructor mite infestations. The virus causes paralysis in the front two pairs of legs of adult bees eventually killing its hosts.
THYMOVAR is a product to control the Varroa mite (Varroa destructor) on bees (Apis mellifera) and contains the essential oil thymol. THYMOVAR contains thymol, a volatile substance which sublimates in the air depending on temperature. On release, thymol vapour concentrations build up in the treated beehive.