Management of varroa mite (varroa destructor) on Honey bee (Apis mellifera) in bee house and Out Door Apiary in Egypt /
مكافحة أكاروس الفاروا على نحل العسل في بيت النحل و المناحل المفتوحة في مصر
Mahmoud Khairy Abdelmaksoud Abada ; Supervised Ayman Mohamed Hefny Mabrouk , Sally Farouk Mohamed Allam
- Cairo : Mahmoud Khairy Abdelmaksoud Abada , 2016
- 108 P. charts , facsimiles ; 25cm
Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Agriculture- Department of Nematology
Varroa mites have been considered a problem for beekeeping for about 40 years. Mint oil, Eucalyptus oil, lemon juice and to concentration from the extract of propolis alcohol prepared in carton strips saturated with aforementioned compounds with known concentrations hanged in the middle of Carnica bees at Aga county, Dakahlia governorate for 12 weeks. The population dynamic of the varroa mite on the brood and the adults of honey bee was significantly differed in the inspected months .In addition, the peak of infestation with varroa mite was occurred during September of each year of 2013 and 2014, on brood and on adult bee then gradually decreased until November of both years. In addition, the average of the total count of varroa mite on brood and adult bee was greatly increased during 2014/2015, than during 2013/2014. The importance of beehouse on overcome the environmental changes that effect on the population of varroa mite and bees activity either for collecting nectar or pollinating the crops in addition to preservation bee queens and brood in the time of the high arising of the degrees of temperature or frozen periods that effect of the fertility of queen and energetic brood. As, beehouse could be used in the protected houses that need bees for pollinating the crops. Furthermore, protect bees from the harmful effect of the different pesticides that can effect on bees in the ordinary fields and protect bee colonies from the interring the infected foreign bees with different diseases to the apiary, in addition to, avoiding the accumulation of and carbon dioxide to hives due to closing the hives during spraying the pesticides near the apiary