Acarine disease of honey bees and its control in Pakistan
Acarine disease of honey bees and its control in Pakistan
Bashir Mohammad Khan, Mohammad Ismail Chaudhry and Pervez Khawaja
ABSTRACT
Acarine disease of young honey bees appeared in Pakistan
for the first time in epidemic form, inflicting 85% loss
of honeybee colonies during 1982-83. Application of the
dequeening method for the control of tracheal mite
disease gave encouraging results particularly in the
queen-right and dequeened colonies. The queen-right and
colonies were recovered sooner than the dequeened
colonies. A supplementary fumigation of Folbex strip is
helpful. The supply of a booster clean package bees to
the queen-right colonies helped in building up the
colony strength quickly.
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June 1987
Vol. 37, Iss. 2
