Verroa Destructor

Varroa Mites again detected in Australia, erradicated

beeadminJuly 6, 2016

The hive of about 5,000 bees along with two varroa mites, which were detected on two of the bees, were destroyed by staff from the Department of Agriculture and Water Resources. Mr Weatherhead said testing will be done to see if the bees had any…

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Uruguay study shows Africanized bees groom Verroa Destructor mites

beeadminJune 14, 2016

This behavior is key to recovering from the Verroa mite epidemic. Ciro Invernizzi and colleagues from the Facultad de Ciencias, Montevideo, Uruguay, compared grooming behaviour in Italian (Apis mellifera ligustica) and Africanized bees. They found that at the individual level, Africanized bees showed a higher…