Infestation by Pyemotes tritici (Acari, Pyemotidae) causes death of stingless bee colonies (Hymenoptera: Meliponina)

We report the infestation of stingless bee nests by the mite Pyemotes tritici, which killed four colonies of Tetragonisca angustula and one colony of Frieseomelitta varia in Brazil. The first infected colony, a colony of T. angustula, came from an area between Uberlândia and Araguari, Minas Gerais....

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Veröffentlicht in:Genetics and molecular research 2009, Vol.8 (2), p.630-634
Hauptverfasser: Menezes, C, Coletto-Silva, A, Gazeta, G.S, Kerr, W.E
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