Honey Bee Diseases and Pests
Honey Bee Diseases and Pests

Author: Wolfgang Ritter (Bee pathologist)

Publisher: FAO

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 48

ISBN-13:

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Control of diseases and pests of honey bees is one of most challenging tasks in improving quality of honey and honey bee by-products, especially for the beekeepers in developing countries. This publication describes common diseases and pests of honey bees and their importance and provides a practical guide to the basic technology available to beekeepers for their control and prevention.

Honey Bee Medicine for the Veterinary Practitioner
Honey Bee Medicine for the Veterinary Practitioner

Author: Terry Ryan Kane

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2021-01-22

Total Pages: 400

ISBN-13: 1119583233

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An essential guide to the health care of honey bees Honey Bee Medicine for the Veterinary Practitioner offers an authoritative guide to honey bee health and hive management. Designed for veterinarians and other professionals, the book presents information useful for answering commonly asked questions and for facilitating hive examinations. The book covers a wide range of topics including basic husbandry, equipment and safety, anatomy, genetics, the diagnosis and management of disease. It also includes up to date information on Varroa and other bee pests, introduces honey bee pharmacology and toxicology, and addresses native bee ecology. This new resource: Offers a guide to veterinary care of honey bees Provides information on basic husbandry, examination techniques, nutrition, and more Discusses how to successfully handle questions and 'hive calls' Includes helpful photographs, line drawings, tables, and graphs Written for veterinary practitioners, veterinary students, veterinary technicians, scientists, and apiarists, Honey Bee Medicine for the Veterinary Practitioner is a comprehensive and practical book on honey bee health.

Responsible use of antimicrobials in beekeeping
Responsible use of antimicrobials in beekeeping

Author: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

Publisher: Food & Agriculture Org.

Published: 2021-10-13

Total Pages: 78

ISBN-13: 9251350051

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These guidelines focus on responsible use of antimicrobials in sustainable apiculture. Following a one-health approach, they aim to protect not only honey bees, but even human health (e.g. reducing the risks of residues in hive products and preventing development of antimicrobial resistance) and the environment. The best way to reach this goal is to prevent and to guarantee the early detection of clinical cases of the main honey bee diseases through the application of good beekeeping practices and biosecurity measures. And when medicines are needed for the honey bees, specific indication is provided to reduce their impact: choosing medicines with a low environmental impact, using them timely, prudently and following the due instructions. It is imperative to apply only those active ingredients that are registered for the honey bees and that are ideally prescribed by a veterinarian. Antibiotics should always be avoided as much as possible to reduce risks of residues in hive products and to prevent risks of antimicrobial resistance. Prudent and limited use of antimicrobials in beekeeping benefits the quality of bee products and the safety of surrounding ecosystems, while also slowing development of antimicrobial resistance, which is a widespread issue affecting multiple sectors. Finally, in this document, for the first time, a progressive management pathway (PMP) has been devised for honey bees, as well as surveys were created to assess current beekeeping practices and general awareness of topical issues such as AMR. The overall aim of these guidelines is to provide information of current challenges within the sector and orientate towards sustainable production and honey bee colony health.

Honey Bee Pests and Diseases
Honey Bee Pests and Diseases

Author: Robert Owen

Publisher: Exisle Publishing

Published: 2023-10-31

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 1991001533

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Honey Bee Pests and Diseases provides up-to-date information on the management of honey bee diseases found globally, not just in the U.S., Europe, or Australia. Of particular interest are the explanations of how pathogens affect honey bees. This facet of diseases is usually left out of honey bee disease books. Written in an easy to understand way, and richly illustrated with photographs and diagrams, chapters cover integrated pest management (IPM), epidemiology, viruses, brood diseases, mites, parasites, as well as other problems a colony might face. The book is largely based on the Ph.D. research of Dr. Robert Owen, who studied the effect of bee diseases in Australia and overseas with particular reference to Varroa. Both Prof. Jean-Pierre Scheerlinck and Prof. Mark Stevenson have extensive and well-recognized experience in honey bee research.

Honeybee Veterinary Medicine
Honeybee Veterinary Medicine

Author: Nicolas Vidal-Naquet

Publisher: 5m Publishing

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781910455043

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Honeybees are an essential part of farming and the wider ecosystem. Since the middle of the 1990s bee populations around the world have suffered dramatic decline through diseases, intoxication, and unknown causes. Veterinarians have had little training in bee health but as the situation continues, qualified animal health professionals and, in particular, veterinarians are being required to become involved as new dangers threaten honeybee health everywhere because of global apiculture trade and exchanges of honeybees, products of the hive and beekeeping material such as Aethina tumida (the small hive beetle - a beekeeping pest) introduced in Italy in 2014 or the mite Tropilaelaps spp (parasitic mites of honeybees). This book will provide an overview of bee biology, the bee in the wider environment, intoxication, bee diseases, bee parasites (with a large part dedicated to the mite Varroa destructor) pests, enemies, and veterinary treatment and actions relating to honeybee health. The book will also cover current topics such as climate change, crop pollination, use of phytosanitary products, antibiotic resistance, and Colony Collapse Disorder. While aimed at veterinary practitioners, students and veterinarians involved in apiculture and bee health (officials, researchers, laboratory veterinarians, biologists...), the book can also be beneficial to beekeepers, beekeeping stakeholders, animal health and environmental organisations.

Infection in Honey Bees
Infection in Honey Bees

Author: Giovanni Cilia

Publisher: Mdpi AG

Published: 2022-01-27

Total Pages: 214

ISBN-13: 9783036529622

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Honey -bee pathogens are spread worldwide and are strongly related to the decline of honey bee populations, with which has severe implications for beekeeping, honey production and ecology. Honey bee pathogens are continuously studied by researchers to with the aim to better understand the host--s-parasites relationship of these pathogens and the effects that they have on the bee coloniesy. Honey bee pathogens include bacteria (i.e. i.e., Melissococcus plutonius and Paenibacillus larvae), microsporidia (i.e. i.e., Nosema apis and Nosema ceranae), fungi (i.e. i.e., Ascosphaera apis), protozoa (i.e. i.e., Lotmaria passim, Crithidia bombi and Crithidia mellificae) and viruses (i.e. i.e., ABPV, CBPV, IAPV, KBV, DWV, BQCV and SBV). All of these pathogens are able to infect other bee species; infections would have with important implications in for their life cycles (e.g. e.g., Osmia sp. and Bombus sp.) or cause unknown epidemiological effects for other hymenopterans. BesidesIn addition, old and new invasive pests (such as Varroa destructor, Aethina tumida, Vespa velutina, etc.) necessitate more studies to definite define their role as possible vectors or possible sources of infection for honey bees. For these reasons, knowledge on honey -bee pathogens has become a matter of public interest and is connected with the critical role of honey -bee health. The aim of this Special Issue is to explore honey bee pathogens, considering any aspect in relation to host-pathogen interaction and highlighting the possible interaction and spillover with other bee species and invasive pests, through a series of research articles focusing that focus on different aspects of pathologies.