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Tag Archives: mite
Image of the Week: Varroa Parasitic Mite
argylesock says… Varroa mites are bad news for bees. This is the third of three articles about pollinators, from the Wellcome Trust blog, which I’m passing on today.
Posted in agriculture, ecology, food, miniculture
Tagged apiculture, arachnid, arthropod, conservation, crop, disease, emerging disease, farmer, honeybee, hymenopteran, insect, mite, parasite, pesticide, plant_dicot, pollination, research, Varroa destructor
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Feature: Protecting the pollinators part 2 – bees and disease
argylesock says… Here’s the second of three articles about pollinators, from the Wellcome Trust blog, which I’m passing on today.
Posted in agriculture, ecology, miniculture
Tagged apiculture, arachnid, arthropod, bacterium, bumblebee, conservation, data, deformed wing virus, dipteran, disease, disease transmission, emerging disease, fungus, habitat loss, honeybee, hoverfly, hymenopteran, insect, insecticide, mite, miticide, Nosema ceranae, parasite, pesticide, pollination, research, scientist, Varroa destructor, Varroa destructor virus-1, vector, virus
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Feature: Protecting the pollinators part 1 – bees and ecology
argylesock says… We need bees and other pollinators. We really, really need them. Here’s the first of three articles about pollinators, from the Wellcome Trust blog, which I’ll pass on today.
Posted in agriculture, ecology, food, miniculture
Tagged apiculture, arachnid, arthropod, beetle, biodiversity, bumblebee, coleopteran, conservation, crop, Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs, dipteran, disease, ecosystem, habitat loss, honeybee, hoverfly, hymenopteran, insect, mite, pesticide, plant_dicot, plant_monocot, pollination, research, seed, Varroa destructor, virus, wasp, wild bee, wild pollinator
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SOILS: The Hidden World Under Our Feet
Originally posted on LEARN FROM NATURE:
One of the most important threats to biodiversity has received little attention — though it lies just below us… From the NY Times Sunday special : THE world’s worrisome decline in biodiversity is well known. Some experts…
Posted in ecology
Tagged arachnid, arthropod, biodiversity, earthworm, ecosystem, extinction, fungus, invertebrate, mite, nematode, protozoan, research, soil, worm
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Honeybees and Varroa mites
I’m grateful to my fellow blogger narhvalur for pointing out this article about how the honey bee (Apis mellifera) seems to fight back against the Varroa mite (Varroa destructor). V. destructor lives down to its scary name. It’s associated with … Continue reading
Posted in agriculture, ecology, horticulture, miniculture
Tagged apiculture, arachnid, arthropod, behaviour, colony collapse disorder, disease, honeybee, hymenopteran, insect, invertebrate, knowledge, larva, mite, parasite, pollination, research, Varroa destructor, vector, virus
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Breeding the honeybee?
In recent years, hives of the honeybee (Apis mellifera) have been devastated in the States, European countries and Japan by Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD). It’s a serious matter because we need bees to pollinate crops and wild plants. CCD isn’t … Continue reading
Posted in knowledge transfer, miniculture
Tagged apiculture, arachnid, arthropod, behaviour, breeding, colony collapse disorder, disease, evolution, honeybee, hymenopteran, insect, invertebrate, knowledge, mite, parasite, pollination, research, selective breeding
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