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| | US CODE: Title 7,5934. Research on honeybee diseases |
 | | (2) certain diseases (such as those caused by tracheal mite, varroa mite, and the Africanized honeybee) pose a threat to the continued well-being of the general honeybee population, and thus merit further study. | | | Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Secretary of Agriculture shall give priority attention to the funding of research regarding the diseases referred to in subsection (a) of this section that are affecting the honeybee population. | | | (1) diseases affecting the entire honeybee population impact on the ability of honeybees to carry out crop pollination and honey production, and therefore impact negatively on beekeepers, producers and consumers; and |
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http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/uscode07/usc_sec_07_00005934----000-.html
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| | Canadian Food Inspection Agency - Information Bulletin - Honeybee Importation Prohibition Regulations |
| | The safe importation of honeybee queens enables the government to support the sustainability and expansion of Canada’s beekeeping industry while minimizing the introduction and spread of new honeybee diseases and pests. | | | CFIA which determined that the importation of honeybee queens posed a lower risk than packaged bees of introducing new bee diseases into Canada. | | | Importation will only be permitted in a manner that will minimize the risk of entry of new bee diseases or pests and Africanized honeybees. |
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http://www.inspection.gc.ca/english/corpaffr/newcom/2004/20040521e.shtml
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| | Beekeeping in the United States |
| | No.: 424.8 AU72 The use of ethylene oxide to fumigate honeybee equipment in the United States and Canada during the 1970's (for the control of honeybee diseases and pests). | | | No.: 424.8 AM3 Honey bee disease interactions: the impact of chalkbrood on other honey bee brood diseases. | | | Language: English Descriptors: New York; Apis mellifera; Honeybee colonies; Mortality; Overwintering; Trachea; Acarapis woodi; Incidence; Commercial beekeeping Abstract: Colonies of honey bees, Apis mellifera L., infested with Acarapis woodi (Rennie) were studied during the four winters of 1985-1989 in New York state. |
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http://www.nal.usda.gov/afsic/AFSIC_pubs/qb93-30.htm
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| | The honeybee research group is concerned with research on behaviour, neuroanatomy and the study of honeybee diseases. | | | The development of the population of the honeybee colonies was measured by the Liebefelder-Method and the data were analysed by a computer program (Bülmann, Bern) to calculate population parameters (number of bees and broodcells, longevity and mean age of the bees in the colony. | | | Mohammed KHODAIRY, a PhD student from Egypt (Channel programme) is currently studying the relationship between cuticular esters of larval stages of the honeybee and the infestation rate of Varroa mite. |
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http://www.uni-bremen.de/~honeybee
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| | Carniolan |
| | Bee space Bottom supering Breeder queens Brood Brood diseases Building your own equipment Carniolan bees Caucasian bees Chalkbrood Chemical use Clipping wings of queens Comb honey Commercial... | | | Apis mellifera capensis: (Cape honeybee) South Africa Apis mellifera carnica: (Carniolan honeybee) Southeastern Europe - popular with beekeepers due to its extreme gentleness. | | | BRESTI ABSTRAKT ABSTRACT DETAILED ABSTRACT TOP OF TEXT PDF FILE Language: Slovakian 157 - 164 Influence of honeybee queens origin to the production characteristics of carniolan bees (Apis mellifera... |
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http://beehiveremoval.fangbee.com/carniolan
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| | MICROSCOPY-UK / MICSCAPE - Insect insights. Insect eyes. Honeybee legs. |
| | There are a large number of Web sites discussing all aspects of bees, honeybees, beekeeping and bee diseases. | | | The honeybee's eye is estimated to have one per cent of the visual acuity of a human eye. | | | On the left is an image of a prepared slide of the ocelli of a honeybee (3.5X objective used). |
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http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/art97b/insecin1.html
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| | Summary of report: Fatty acids an alternative control strategy for honeybee diseases |
| | The use of fatty acids as an alternative means for the control of honeybee bacterial diseases seems feasible based on microbiological assays. | | | European foulbrood and American foulbrood are two of the most important diseases of honeybees in Australia. | | | Further testing of the activity of these fatty acids in artificially raised larvae and honeybee colonies is required before the application of such an alternative control strategy can be implemented. |
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http://www.rirdc.gov.au/reports/HBE/03-028sum.html
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| | Apiary (Bee) Certification |
| | The Missouri Apiculture Law (RSMO 264.011-264.101) provides the authority for the Missouri Department of Agriculture to regulate the beekeeping industry to prevent the spread of harmful honeybee pests and diseases. | | | Pests and diseases of concern include honeybee tracheal mite (Acarapis woodi), varroa mite (Varroa jacobsoni), Africanized honeybee (Apis mellifera scutellata), American foulbrood, European foulbrood, or any other pest or infectious disease detrimental to honeybees. | | | Anyone desiring to move bees or used beekeeping equipment into the state, must contact the State Entomologist to obtain an application for the necessary permit. |
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http://www.mda.mo.gov/Plants/f6a.htm
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| | Press Release - Government Cuts in the Bee Health Programme (News from the BBKA) |
| | The Honeybee Health Programme, managed through the National Bee Unit of DEFRA, has been operating successfully for many years, helping the nation’s 20,000 beekeepers in England (of which 95% are amateurs) to control diseases that can destroy honeybee colonies. | | | The survey underlined that the Honeybee Health Programme was very important in protecting our bee stocks from the introduction of disease from outside this country. | | | Since the arrival of Varroa (a parasitic mite that kills honeybee colonies) in this country in 1992, wild colonies of honeybees have died out and it is only beekeepers, that maintain stocks of honeybees. |
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http://www.bbka.org.uk/news/news/bbka/press-release-bbka120505.shtml
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| | Bee Pests and Diseases ENTOMOLOGY AT DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE WESTERN AUSTRALIA |
| | The nest is of similar size to domestic honeybees, but the cell size is slightly smaller which can be used for positive identification. | | | Bumble bees and leafcutting bees also have the potential to introduce exotic honeybee diseases. | | | Apis cerana is slightly smaller than the domestic honeybee and it's nest and cell size is similar to the domestic honeybee only smaller in size. |
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http://agspsrv34.agric.wa.gov.au/ento/bee3.htm
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| | Beekeeping in the United States |
| | No.: 424.8 AU72 The use of ethylene oxide to fumigate honeybee equipment in the United States and Canada during the 1970's (for the control of honeybee diseases and pests). | | | Language: English Descriptors: New York; Apis mellifera; Honeybee colonies; Mortality; Overwintering; Trachea; Acarapis woodi; Incidence; Commercial beekeeping Abstract: Colonies of honey bees, Apis mellifera L., infested with Acarapis woodi (Rennie) were studied during the four winters of 1985-1989 in New York state. | | | No.: 424.8 J82 Nosema disease in package honeybees, queens and attendant workers shipped to western Canada (from the USA, Apis mellifera, Nosema apis). |
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http://www.nal.usda.gov/afsic/AFSIC_pubs/qb93-30.htm
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| | KDA Office for Consumer & Public Service |
| | The State Apiarist's office provides information on honeybee diseases and pests that Kentucky beekeepers are likely to encounter. | | | Information covers topics on prevention, detection, and treatment of honeybee diseases and pests including the following: |
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http://www.kyagr.com/state_vet/bees/diseases.htm
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| | BeeSource.com ViewPoint Lusby Part 21 |
| | Since both honeybees and mites have co-existed for many millions of years, it must be assumed that something done artificially to honeybee colonies during their domestication and management by man has created the problem of parasitic mites, that ultimately result in the destruction of the colony population by them and their accompanying secondary diseases. | | | To suppress and mask symptoms of honeybee diseases, pests and parasites with chemicals without finding their origin is contrary to the philosophy of long term biological control. | | | Based on observations and study of comb cell sizes, it should be hypothesized instead, that honeybees, since the early 1900s, have been artifically mutated larger by beekeepers using bigger and bigger comb sizes, thus causing the parallel evolution of mites as their food source changed. |
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http://www.beesource.com/pov/lusby/part21.htm
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| | Brother Adam O.S.B. 1985 – Breeding the Honeybee – Part II |
| | As far as the honeybee is concerned, because of her extreme susceptibility to inbreeding, she is by nature directed to mixed mating and cross mating so as to preserve her vitality. | | | To prevent inbreeding the Achilles heel of the honeybee she arranged that mating should take place in free flight up to a distance of 4 miles from the hive and in addition that it should be multiple mating with a number of different drones. | | | t is clear from the foregoing that with brood diseases there is as much difference in the range of susceptibility and resistance as in the case of diseases of the adult bee. |
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http://perso.fundp.ac.be/~jvandyck/homage/books/FrAdam/breeding/partII85en.html
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| | BBC NEWS Programmes Politics Show Yorkshire and Lincolnshire: Stung into action |
| | They have been notified that the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs wants a 20% cut in the £1.25m it currently spends on inspecting and protecting bee colonies from diseases through its Honeybee Health Programme. | | | Defra admits that honeybees are an essential part of food production as the only "manageable" insect pollinator. | | | They claim Government penny pinching of its budget to fight deadly diseases could see their hives wiped out. |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/politics_show/4123238.stm
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| | American foulbrood - Beekeeping Supplies Protective Clothing Beekeeping Equipment |
| | AFB can destroy entire apiaries of strong honeybee colonies and is the most widespread of honeybee brood diseases. | | | The vegetative (adult) stage of bacillus larvae is not infectious to honeybees. | | | Unlike other bee diseases, AFB can persist in a contagious form for up to 60 years, surviving in a dormant stage as spores. |
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http://www.beecare.com/DiseasesMedications/AFB.htm
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| | Royal Jelly - Apitherapy |
| | Apitherapy is the medicinal use of honeybee products to help with many illnesses, including eczema, asthma, rheumatism, arthritis&; immune diseases, for natural health and healing | | | The American Apitherapy Society is a non-profit membership organization devoted to advancing the investigation and promoting the use of honey bee products to further good health and to treat a variety of conditions and diseases | | | Apitherapy - honeybee products for health and healing including bee pollen&; propolis&; royal jelly, bee venom therapy, nutritional supplements and body care products. |
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http://www.queenbeehive.com/apitherapy
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| | Apiary Registration |
| | These diseases are honeybee specific, and can reduce the adult bees’ life span, or literally end the life of colonies and developing brood. | | | Specifically, within Chapter 909 of the Ohio Revised Code, beekeepers are required to register their apiaries and control diseases that are considered to be serious. | | | Honeybees can be subjected to a number of bacterial, viral, fungal, and parasitic afflictions. |
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http://www.angelfire.com/nb/movba/apiaryreg.html
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| | FAO : AGS : Projects |
| | The objective of the project is to support Iraqi beekeepers, through their Associations, in restoring the health of their honeybee colonies by improving apiary management skills and also upgrading control measures for honeybee pests and diseases, while strengthening the national capacity for honeybee disease control |
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http://www.fao.org/ag/AGS/projects/en/neareast/tcp_irq_2801.html
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| | Tennessee Department of Agriculture |
| | Gray Haun, State Apiarist, with eleven county beekeeper association inspectors across the state, accomplishes this goal through inspection of honeybee colonies for diseases and pests. | | | The role of the Apiary Section is to ensure an adequate population of honeybee pollinators in the State of Tennessee. | | | A list of beekeepers interested in moving their colonies for purposes of pollination may be accessed by clicking here using the Adobe Acrobat Reader. |
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http://www.state.tn.us/agriculture/regulate/apiary
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| | Plant Laboratory Services |
| | The New Jersey Department of Agriculture's Plant Laboratory provides laboratory support for regulatory and service programs affecting the producers, dealers, and consumers of plant products in New Jersey, emphasizing the analysis of seeds, and the diagnosis of honeybee diseases and plant pathogens. | | | Plant pathology testing is performed for the identification of both seed-borne and nursery diseases. | | | Honey bee analysis includes microbiology tests for bacterial foulbrood diseases, tracheal and Varroa mite identification, and tests for Africanization. |
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http://www.state.nj.us/agriculture/plant/lab.htm
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| | Tata Group Knowledge centre other articles Information you can use |
| | In collaboration with the HoneyBee Network and the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, they have announced the first annual competition for scouting grassroots technological innovations. | | | The winners of the first annual national competition will be invited to the HoneyBee network and innovators meeting at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, in February 2001. | | | The NIF solicits entries about innovations attempted by small and cottage-based industries, farmers, artisans, fishermen and women, slumdwellers, workshop mechanics, and local communities in managing natural resources, biodiversity, developing new farm implements, herbal pesticides, curing diseases, construction of low cost environmentally benign houses or any other aspect of survival in urban and rural areas. |
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http://www.tata.com/0_knowledge_centre/other_articles/20001116innovation_forum1(b).htm
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| | Canada Gazette |
| | The Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food has, in the enactment of the Honeybee Importation Prohibition Regulations, 1999 (SOR/2000-323), used this authority to prevent honeybees from being imported into Canada from the continental United States (U.S.) because of the presence in the U.S. of treatment resistant varroa mites and other honeybee diseases and pests. | | | The Solicitor General of Canada styled Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness and the Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food, pursuant to section 14 of the Health of Animals Act (see footnote a), hereby make the annexed Honeybee Importation Prohibition Regulations, 2004. | | | Section 14 of the Act gives the Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food the power, when circumstances warrant, to prohibit importation into Canada of an animal or thing from a place for a specified period of time for the purpose of preventing the introduction or spread of a disease or toxic substances. |
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http://canadagazette.gc.ca/partII/2004/20040602/html/sor136-e.html
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| | Encyclopedia A - Beekeeping Supplies Protective Clothing Beekeeping Equipment |
| | AFB can destroy entire apiaries of strong honeybee colonies and is the most widespread of honeybee brood diseases. | | | a state of shock resulting from a honeybee sting; during which one of the body's reactions is to contract the muscles in the bronchial tubes, or breathing tubes in the lungs. | | | Anaphylactic shock is brought on by an acute allergy to bee venom and may cause sudden death unless immediate medical attention is received. |
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http://www.beecare.com/Encyclopedia/Encyclopedia%20A.htm
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| | First steps in Beekeeping |
| | Many honeybee colonies are of uneven temper, they may carry one or more adult or even brood diseases, and have poor honey-getting abilities. | | | Honeybees turn the plant nectar into honey, store and use pollen to feed their larvae and employ a mixture of natural resins (propolis) to strengthen and waterproof the hive. | | | The honeybee colony behaves as a single unit and, although the modern hive permits the beekeeper to perform many manipulations, the colony is not 'domesticated' in the way that farm animals are. |
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http://www.bbka.org.uk/starting.php
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| | linkydinkydo |
| | Importing honeybee queens from the continental U.S. will help Canadian beekeepers replenish their stock with a minimum risk of introducing new bee diseases. | | | Canadian beekeepers have faced increasing difficulties in obtaining the necessary number of honeybee queens for the honey production and pollination seasons due to winter losses and limited availability from Hawaii, New Zealand and Australia. | | | Rhino Home Video and TGA DVD will on June 29 release "Toronto Rocks," documenting the July 30, 2003, Molson Canadian Rocks for Toronto gala show. |
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http://linkydinkydo.dudecheckthisout.com
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| | ALBAY Honeybee Venom (Apis mellifera); ALBAY Honeybee Venom Treatment Set; ALBAY Honeybee Venom Maintenance Set; ALBAY Albumin-saline diluent |
| | Since routine immunizations have been suspected of exacerbating auto-immune diseases, hyposensitization should be given cautiously to patients with other immunological diseases and only if the risk from insect stings is greater than the risk of exacerbating the underlying disorder. | | | Hyposensitisation using ALBAY honeybee venom is recommended only for patients who demonstrate a clear history of reagin mediated allergenic reactions combined with a positive specific IgE or skin test. | | | Patients should be instructed to avoid medication such as antihistamines for a period of 72 hours or more prior to skin testing, as well as hyposensitisation therapy, since such medicines may interfere with the allergic response, which could indicate specific sensitivity and thus future regulation of dosage. |
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http://home.intekom.com/pharm/bayer/albay.html
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| | Glossary of Bee Terms |
| | American foulbrood disease - one of the most widespread and destructive of the bacterial honeybee brood diseases | | | Apis mellifera - scientific name (genus and species) of the honeybee; always italicized | | | Brood - immature forms of bees (and other insects); include eggs, larvae, and pupae |
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http://honeybee.tamu.edu/about/glossary.html
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| | Genome Map Helping Scientists Build a Better Honeybee / January 10, 2005 / News from the USDA Agricultural Research Service |
| | Their efforts come at a time when insect pests, parasites and diseases of honeybees cause an estimated $5 million annually in crop-pollination losses. | | | Mapping the honeybee genome opens up other exciting research avenues as well: identifying genetic markers to speed breeding of bees, such as for better winter survival; modeling host-pathogen interactions to better control honeybee disease organisms; and conducting genome-driven studies to fine-tune honey bee nutrition and pollination. | | | For example, by locating honeybees' olfactory genes, researchers may be able to improve the insect's diet through supplementation or improve its ability to forage for nectar longer. |
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http://www.ars.usda.gov/is/pr/2005/050110.htm
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| | Barnstable County Beekeepers Association |
| | The Barnstable County Beekeepers Association (BCBA) is a 25-year-old group of more that 150 honeybee enthusiasts from Cape Cod and the surrounding area. | | | Topics include hive management, honeybee pests and diseases, swarm control, plants and pollination, and extracting honey. | | | In addition, the club runs a number of annual activities including a course on the Basics of Beekeeping, an annual spring pollinator plant sale, and a display at the Barnstable County Fair and the Harvest Fest. |
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http://www.barnstablebeekeepers.org/generalinfo
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