Varroa destructor: Research avenues towards sustainable control

Journal of Apicultural Research

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 125-132

  Dietemann, Vincent ^a,b   Pflugfelder, Jochen ^a   Anderson, Denis ^c   Charrière, Jean Daniel ^a   Chejanovsky, Nor ^d   Dainat, Benjamin ^a   De Miranda, Joachim ^e   Delaplane, Keith ^f   Dillier, Franz Xaver ^g   Fuch, Stefan ^h   Gallmann, Peter ^a   Gauthier, Laurent ^a   Imdorf, Anton ^a   Koeniger, Nikolaus ^h   Kralj, Jasna ⁱ   Meikle, William ^j   Pettis, Jeff ^k   Rosenkranz, Peter ^l   Sammataro, Diana ^m   Smith, Deborah ⁿ   Yanez, Orlando ^a   Neumann, Peter ^a,o   more..

^a AGROSCOPE LIEBEFELD POSIEUX RESEARCH STATION ALP   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

^d VOLCANI CENTER   (Israel)

^e SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^f UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^g Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main ^*  (Switzerland)

^h GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

ⁱ NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF BIOLOGY   (Slovenia)

^j KIKA DE LA GARZA SUBTROPICAL AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^k USDA ARS Bee Research Laboratory   (United States)

^l UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

^m CARL HAYDEN BEE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^o RHODES UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

more..

Author keywords

Apis mellifera; Colony losses; Future perspectives; Honey bee; Pollination; Sustainable control; Varroa destructor

Indexed keywords

ACARI; APIS MELLIFERA; APOIDEA; VARROA DESTRUCTOR;

EID: 84859615961     PISSN: 00218839     EISSN: 20786913     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3896/IBRA.1.51.1.15     Document Type: Article

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