Recording the proportion of damaged Varroa jacobsoni Oud. in the debris of honey bee colonies (Apis mellifera)

Apidologie

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 249-256

  Bienefeld, Kaspar ^a   Zautke, Fred ^a   Pronin, Denis ^b   Mazeed, Adil ^c  

^a Landerinstitut fur Bienenkunde   (Germany)

^b Bee Research Institute   (Russian Federation)

^c ANIMAL PRODUCTION RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Breeding; Defence behaviour; Method of evaluation; Performance test; Varroa resistance

Indexed keywords

HONEYBEE; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; INJURY; MEASUREMENT METHOD; MITE;

ARTICLE; BREEDING; DEFENSIVE BEHAVIOR; HONEYBEE; MITE; NONHUMAN; PREDATION;

ACARI; APIDAE; APIS MELLIFERA; APOIDEA; HYMENOPTERA; INSECTA; INVERTEBRATA; LEPIDOPTERA; VARROA; VARROA JACOBSONI; VARROIDAE;

EID: 0032757092     PISSN: 00448435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/apido:19990401     Document Type: Article

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