Sudden deaths and colony population decline in Greek honey bee colonies

Journal of Invertebrate Pathology

Volumn 105, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 335-340

  Bacandritsos, N ^a   Granato, A ^b   Budge, G ^c   Papanastasiou, I ^a   Roinioti, E ^a   Caldon, M ^b   Falcaro, C ^b   Gallina, A ^b   Mutinelli, F ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS   (Greece)

^b ISTITUTO ZOOPROFILATTICO SPERIMENTALE DELLE VENEZIE   (Italy)

^c FOOD AND ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH AGENCY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Colony depopulation; Honey bee; Imidacloprid; Nosema ceranae; Virus

Indexed keywords

IMIDACLOPRID; IMIDAZOLE DERIVATIVE; NITRO DERIVATIVE; PESTICIDE; VIRUS DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BEE; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; COLONY COLLAPSE; GREECE; INSECT VIRUS; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MICROBIOLOGY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VIROLOGY; VIRUS INFECTION;

ANIMALS; BEES; CHROMATOGRAPHY, LIQUID; COLONY COLLAPSE; DNA, VIRAL; GREECE; IMIDAZOLES; INSECT VIRUSES; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NITRO COMPOUNDS; PESTICIDES; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VIRUS DISEASES;

ACARAPIS WOODI; ACUTE BEE PARALYSIS VIRUS; APIS MELLIFERA; APOIDEA; BLACK QUEEN CELL VIRUS; CHRONIC BEE PARALYSIS VIRUS; DEFORMED WING VIRUS; NOSEMA; NOSEMA CERANAE; SACBROOD VIRUS; VARROA; VARROA DESTRUCTOR;

EID: 77958176954     PISSN: 00222011     EISSN: 10960805     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jip.2010.08.004     Document Type: Article

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