Acarapis woodi: Honey Bee Tracheal Mite
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Description: Provides photographs and a description of this mite, with information on its distribution, life history, hosts, economic importance and management.
honey bee tracheal mite - Acarapis woodi common name: honey bee tracheal mite (Rennie) (Arachnida: Acari: Tarsonemidae) In October 1984, the honey bee tracheal mite, (Rennie), was found in Florida. Although it was first described by Rennie in 1921, the mite was not found in the United States until 1984. Rennie described the mite from bees on the Isle of Wight and associated it with the "Isle of Wight" disease. Symptoms of this infestation were described as "bees crawling about unable to fly, and with wings disjointed; dwindling and mortality of colonies have been said to occur rapidly with colonies dying within a month." It was later shown that the tracheal mite was not the cause of the "Isle of Wight" disease (Bailey 1964), and later reports (Bailey 1968, Morse 1978) indicate that
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| Page title: | honey bee tracheal mite - Acarapis woodi |
| Keywords: | honey bee tracheal mite Acarapis woodi Acarina Tarsonemidae Denmark Cromroy Sanford |
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| IP-address: | 128.227.242.110 |
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| NS | Name Servers: NS.NAME.UFL.EDU 128.227.30.254 RNS.NAME.UFL.EDU 8.6.245.30 |
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| Date | activated: 25-Mar-1986 last updated: 03-Feb-2014 expires: 31-Jul-2014 |