Mite species inhabiting commercial bumblebee (Bombus terrestris) nests in Polish greenhouses

Experimental and Applied Acarology

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 271-282

  Rozej, Elzbieta ^a   Witaliński, Wojciech ^a   Szentgyörgyi, Hajnalka ^a   Wantuch, Marta ^a   Moroń, Dawid ^b   Woyciechowski, Michal ^a  

^a JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^b INSTITUTE OF SYSTEMATICS AND EVOLUTION OF ANIMALS   (Poland)

Author keywords

Acaridae; Bombus terrestris; Commensal species; Invasive species; Laelapidae; Parasitidae

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; COLONY; COMMENSAL; ENDOPARASITE; GREENHOUSE ECOSYSTEM; HONEYBEE; INVASIVE SPECIES; MITE; NEST; PARASITE CONTROL; PARASITE PREVALENCE; POLLEN; SOCIAL INSECT;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BEE; CLASSIFICATION; INTRODUCED SPECIES; MITE; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POLAND;

ANIMALS; BEES; INTRODUCED SPECIES; MITES; POLAND;

POLAND;

ACARI; ACARIDAE; APIS MELLIFERA; ARTHROPODA; BOMBUS TERRESTRIS; HEXAPODA; HYPOASPIS; HYPOASPIS HYATTI; LAELAPIDAE; LOCUSTACARUS BUCHNERI; PARASITELLUS FUCORUM; PARASITIDAE; TYROPHAGUS PUTRESCENTIAE;

EID: 84856589778     PISSN: 01688162     EISSN: 15729702     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10493-012-9510-8     Document Type: Article

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