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Bee Pest . Hugh A. Smith ( MSc . BSc .) Senior Plant Protection Officer Apiculture Unit March 2012. Healthy Frame. Stored Honey. Honey or Brood ?. Healthy Brood. Brood frame. Honey. Drone cells. Good Brood Pattern. Healthy Frame. Honey. Supersedure queen Cell. Varroa Mite. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Bee Pest
Hugh A. Smith (MSc. BSc.)Senior Plant Protection Officer
Apiculture UnitMarch 2012
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Healthy Frame
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Stored Honey
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Honey or Brood ?
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Healthy Brood
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Brood frame
Drone cells
Honey
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Good Brood Pattern
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Healthy FrameHoney
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Supersedure queen Cell
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Varroa Mite
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Varroa destructor is an external parasitic mite
It was until recently mislabeled as Varroa jacobsoni.
It can only replicate in a honeybee colony. It attaches at the body of the bee and
weakens the bee by sucking haemolymph. In this process the mite may also spread RNA viral agents and bacteria to the bee.
Varroa destructor
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Varroa destructor was until recently thought to be a closely related mite species called Varroa jacobsoni.
Both species parasitize the Asian honey bee, Apis cerana.
The mite species originally described as V. jacobsoni by Oudemans in 1904 is part of the same species complex, but not the same species that made the jump to Apis mellifera.
That jump probably first took place in the Philippines in the early 1960’s.
This late identification in 2000 by Anderson and Trueman led to some confusion and mislabeling in the scientific literature.
Varroa destructor vs Varroa jacobsoni
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Varroa Mite on Adult Honey Bee
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Adult Varroa
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Bee Cell With Varroa
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Pupa with Varroa
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Synchronized with that of its honey bee host;
The female lays eggs in bee brood cells. Developing mites feed on developing
honey bee larvae. Males and females copulate in the cell. The male dies, but pregnant females
emerge from the cell along with their bee host and seek another cell to repeat the cycle.
It is thought the length of the post capping period in honey bees is an important indicator of eventual infestation.
Life Cycle of Varroa
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Life Cycle
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Varroa Mite
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Varroa on Larva
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Varroa on Pupa
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Chemical ◦ Apistan™◦ Apiguard™◦ Others
Non –Chemical◦ Traps / hive designs◦ Brood Management◦ Stock Selection
Control of Varroa
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Resistance
Determine a colony's infestation level
Monitor effectiveness of the treatment.
Integrated Pest Management
Management of Varroa
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Varroa Insert for Detection
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Varroa TreatmentPrevention Drone trapping
Screen Bottom BoardInspection and
monitoringSticky board or sugar roll
Least toxic control methods (soft treatment)
Formic acid, mineral oil
Last resort Apistan or Checkmite
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Small Hive Beetle
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Adult Small Hive Beetle Reddish Brown to
Black in colour; Measures 5mm in
length; 1/3 honey bees
size Very hard shell;
and May live up to
6mths.
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Small Hive Beetle
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Small Hive Beetle Larvae Cream to off-white in
colour; Measures:
◦ Length 1.1cm;◦ Diameter 0.16 cm
Resemble the wax moth larvae but have spines;
Pupate between 10 -16dys
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Small Hive Beetle Larvae and Slime
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SHBLife Cycle
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Larvae attacks and feeds on honey and pollen;
Consume honeybee eggs and larvae of all stages;
Dripping of honey in the hive; Honey usually ferments and produces an
unpleasant odour;and Odour repels the honeybee.
Damages cause by SHB
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Mechanical control traps (PVC) Bottom Board trap with honey attached Bait traps In hive treatment Outside hive treatment
◦ Soil treatment
Control Measures
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Adult Wax Moth
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Wax Moth
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Greater Wax Moth Larva
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Life Cycle of Acarine mites
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Acarine Mite, Acarapis Woodii(Tracheal Mite)
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Acarine mite
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Acarine mite
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Acarine Mites in Tubes
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Acarine mites
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Red ants Black ants Termites
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American Foulbrood (AFB)
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AFB is caused by a bacterium called Paenibacillus larvae subsp. larvae.
This bacterium forms spores when subjected to stress (such as lack of nutrients);
it is these spores that actually cause the disease.
Cause
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This disease of honeybee brood affects sealed brood and has characteristic symptoms, which may include the following:
Pepper-pot brood pattern Sunken, greasy or perforated,
darkened cappings Roping, sticky larval remains Dark scales, difficult to remove from
cells
Symptoms
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Spotty brood patternHoneyBrood
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American Foulbrood
Bacteria that attacks brood – SMELLS BAD!
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Brood Disease
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American Foulbrood -2
Cell capsunken & open
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AFB – Irregular & sunken brood
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AFB- Dead pupae with tongue
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AFB Larva “tongue”
Stick a toothpick into larva cell. You see goo instead of larva.
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Sunken Cell Cappings
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Match Stick Test
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The beekeeper Robbing of dead or dying infected
colonies Adult bees and brood combs Imported Honey and Bee Products Reduce robbing All infected colonies are destroyed
Spread and control
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AFB Cycle
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Wolfgang Ritter etal; American foulbrood (AFB), Paenibacillus
larvae studied in in vitro rearings, ◦ 3-1384 spores per larva at a larval age of 24-28 h. ◦ with three spores died before day 6, ◦ 30% died at day 4, 36h before the time of capping . ◦ Day 4, approximately 480 000 bacterial colonies
were cultured per larvae inoculated◦ Day 3 nurse bees removed 40% and 50 % of the
infected larvae before disease symptoms are visible.
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Match Stick Test
Milk Test
Honey Sampling
Test for AFB Presence
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R M Goodwin etal. (1996)
An alternative means of identifying◦ to test adult honey bees for the presence of B.
larvae spores ◦ samples of adult bees can test positive for the
presence of B. larvae spores without their colonies exhibiting clinical symptoms of AFB
◦ limits the value of the test in identifying hives with clinical AFB symptoms.
Bacillus larvae spores carried by adult honey bees
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American Foulbrood
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Match Stick Test
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Close the hive
Reduce the hive entrance to prevent robbing - take other steps if necessary
Disinfect your beekeeping equipment especially hive tool and wash hands before examining other colonies
What you must do if you suspect AFB in your apiary
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Contact the Apiculture Unit (The Chief Plant Protection Officer)
Bee Control Act Have Disease confirmed Destroy Diseased beehive Antibiotic oxytetracycline (as the
formulation Terramycin®). (NO NO FOR Jamaica)
What you must do if you suspect foulbrood in your apiary
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Chemical◦ Antibiotics◦ Impact of Chemical Treatment
Non-chemical◦ Jamaica Beekeeping Act/ Regulations◦ New Zealand Method
Control of AFB
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Journal of Apicultural Research Vol. 38 (3-4) pp. 149-158 in 1999
Toxicity tests for adult bees - ◦ no impact & ◦ degradation time in honey was about 60 days. ◦ AFB was effectively controlled by oxytetracycline
hydrochloride and Terramycin but in all cases, colonies exhibited disease recurrence from five to 10 months after treatment.
Tylosin, erythromycin and oxytetracycline
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Journal of Apicultural Research Vol. 40 (2) pp. 65-69 by M L Del Hoyo etal; Colonies exhibiting clinical symptoms of American foulbrood were
divided into 2 groups :◦ Shaking adult bees into a new hive; ◦ Shaking adult bees in front of the entrance to a new hive.◦ Honey bee and honey samples were taken before shaking and 1, 22, 44 and
66 days after shaking. ◦ Reduction in the number of colony-forming units in honey bee and honey
samples ◦ Honey and honey bee samples were positive for the presence of P. I. larvae◦ No AFB clinical symptoms detected in the honey bee colonies after 5
months,
Effect of shaking
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AFB Equipment Destroyed St. Thomas
Quantity Estimated Values
Single 25 250000
Double 80 1120000
Triple 24 408000
Quadruple 1 22000
Hive Covers 208 99840
Hive Bodies 488 351360
Bottom Board 202 96960
Frames 742 53424
Queen Excluders 11 5280
Shallow Supers 9 5760
Nucs 13 10400
$2,423,024
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The last word on…
PESTICIDES
More is NEVER BetterNEVER during Honey Flow!!NEVER into a honey super
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DiseaseBurn This is the only way
to effectively destroy the disease. Other chemical treatments only mask the symptoms and it can return at a later time.
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Chalk white. Sometimes mottled with black spots Watery to paste-like. Does not adhere to cell wall. Brittle. Chalky white, mottled or even black
Chalk Brood
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Chalkbrood
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Chalkbrood Mummies
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Mouse Nest
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Mice Destroy Combs
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Sacbrood
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Sacbrood
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Suspects - CCD Varroa impact on colony – But dead hives
were not heavily infested Chemical – 170 chemicals (Sick and
healthy) No single chemical weaken bee health
Fungi and bacteria – infestation low in CCD hives
Isreali Acute Paralysis Virus – Produce symptoms of CCD (high in CCD hives)
Others - …………..?????????
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Note: Most of the pictures used in this presentation are not the property of the presenter
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The End