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Healthy Bees: Managing pests, diseases and other disorders of the honey bee
AgGuide - A Practical Guide
Doug Somerville , Jennifer Laffan
The aim of this book is to provide bee-keepers with a guide to the common pests and diseases of bees.
Healthy Bees covers seasonal factors that affect the health of the colony, nutrition, non-infectious disorders, diseases, exotic pests, and strategies to prevent them.
Clear photographs to help you recognise and identify pests and diseases, and videos demonstrate collecting samples from your hive.
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Contents
Introduction
CHAPTER 1: The honey bee
Introduction
Lifecycle of the honey bee
Castes of bees and their roles in the colony
Genetics
Inbreeding
Sex hormones in the hive
CHAPTER 2: Colony size
Introduction
Colony size varies with seasons
Nectar flow and brood rearing
Managing bees in winter
Managing bees in spring
CHAPTER 3: Nutrition
Food for bees
Feeding sugar to honey bees
Plants as poisons
CHAPTER 4: Effects of seasons and location
Seasons
Location
CHAPTER 5: Disease and disorder
Health of bees is important
Non-infectious disorders
Causes of disease
CHAPTER 6: Strategies to prevent disease
Be alert
Inspect the hive
Comb replacement program
Barrier system
Best practice
CHAPTER 7: Diseases of the honey bee brood
American foulbrood
European foulbrood
Chalkbrood
Sacbrood
Kashmir bee virus
Black queen cell virus
Prepare a larval smear for diagnosis
CHAPTER 8: Diseases of adult honey bees
Nosema disease
Chronic bee paralysis virus (CBPV)
CHAPTER 9: Hive pests
Small hive beetle (SHB)
Wax moth
Other pests
CHAPTER 10: Exotic pests
Varroa mite
Sugar shaking to detect external parasites
Tracheal mite
Tropilaelaps mite
Predatory hornets
Large hive beetles
CHAPTER 11: Surveillance and response to exotic pests and disease
Surveillance
Response to surveillance alert
CHAPTER 12: Honey bees and the law
Introduction
Beekeeper registration
Abandoned or neglected hives
The legal requirement to notify
Biosecurity Code of Practice
Bonus Chapter: Testing for Hygienic Behaviour
Liquid Nitrogen-Killed Brood Test
Appendix 1: Glossary
Appendix 2: The pollen story
Not all pollen is equal
No pollen and the colony dies
Pollen substitutes
Sugar syrup, brood rearing, pollen foraging
References
Appendix 3: Competencies supported by this publication
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