Economic Impacts

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Economic Impacts
Image courtesy of Scott Bauer, USDA
Agricultural
Research Service, Bugwood.org

• Honeybee
• Varroatosis
• Varroa destructor
• Huge threat to beekeeping can kill colony
• Tend to infect drone brood over worker brood
• Hard to treat Chemically, Physically, Cultural
• http//video.google.com/videoplay?docid-730456243
  5786960616 - 10 minute video

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Economic Impacts

• Honeybee
• Tracheal mite (Acarapis woodi)
• Spread to U.S. in 1984
• Enter tracheal system of adults
• Only 3 annual loss so not a major pest
• May cause wing deformity and improper flying
• Treatment Chemical, Resistant bees, Crisco
  patties
  
• http//video.google.com/videoplay?docid-530248919
  698814753 9 minute video
  

Photo by Lilia De Guzman
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Sampling Technique for Tracheal Mites
Image from USDA pamphlet
We will try this in lab if bees available
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Bibliography Continued

• Bauer, Scott. 2006. USDA Image Gallery. Varroa
  mites image. http//www.ars.usda.gov/is/graphics/p
  hotos/jun02/k5111-7.htm
  
• Caron, Dewey M. 1999. Honey Bee Biology and
  beekeeping. Wicwas Press, LLC. Cp. 20.
  
• De Guzman, Lilia. 2006. USDA Image Gallery.
  Tracheal mite image. http//www.ars.usda.gov/is/gr
  aphics/photos/dec04/k5069-23.htm
  
• Sanford, M.T. And H.L. Cromroy. 2007. Univ. of
  Florida. Featured Creatures Varroa mites
  tracheal mites. http//creatures.ifas.ufl.edu/mis
  c/bees/varroa_mite.htm http//creatures.ifas.ufl.e
  du/misc/bees/tracheal_mite.htm
• Shimanuki, Hachiro, and David A. Knox. 2000.
  Diagnosis of Honey Bee Diseases. U.S. Department
  of Agriculture, Agriculture Handbook No. AH690,
  61 pp.
• http//www.ars.usda.gov/is/np/honeybeediseases/ho
  neybeediseases.pdf
  
• USDA. 2006. Tracheal Mite Dissection Video.
  http//www.ars.usda.gov/pandp/docs.htm?docid14370