Behavioral attributes and parental care of Varroa mites parasitizing honeybee brood

Donzé, Gérard; Guérin, Patrick M.

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“…Varroa destructor V. destructor is one of the most well-known, economically important and widely distributed ectoparasites affecting honeybees (Rosenkranz et al 2010) and is an OIE notifiable infestation. This mite was once confined to its natural host the Eastern honeybee, Apis cerana , but has since shifted its host to, among others, the Western honeybee (Donzé and Guerin 1994;Potts et al 2010). V. destructor has been reported in many African countries (Hussein 2001a, b;Ellis and Munn 2005;Mumoki et al 2014); however, this may be an underestimate due to the limited availability of data.…”

Section: Parasitic Mitesmentioning

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Honeybee health in Africa—a review

Pirk¹,

Strauss²,

Yusuf³

et al. 2015

Apidologie

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-Honeybee (Apis mellifera L.) pathogens and parasites and the negative effects thereof on honeybee populations remain an issue of public concern and the subject of active research. Africa with its high genetic diversity of honeybee sub-species and large wild population is also exposed to various factors responsible for colony losses in other parts of the world. Apart from the current American foulbrood epidemic in the Western Cape of South Africa, no large-scale colony losses have been reported elsewhere on the continent. We discuss the presence of pathogens, parasites, pests and predators of African honeybees as well as the threats they face in relation to habitat changes arising from the impact of increased human populations. In addition, we discuss current efforts aimed at protecting and promoting the health of African honeybees.honeybees / Africa / honeybee health / pathogens / parasites / pests / predators / habitat loss

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Section: Parasitic Mitesmentioning

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“…destructor mites feed on the haemolymph of honeybees (adults and developing brood) and reproduction takes place inside capped brood cells (Donzé and Guerin 1994). The duration of mite feeding during honeybee pupal development depends on the caste and sub-species (Rosenkranz et al 2010).…”

Section: Parasitic Mitesmentioning

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Honeybee health in Africa—a review

Pirk¹,

Strauss²,

Yusuf³

et al. 2015

Apidologie

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“…The reproduction occurs in a capped comb cell where a honeybee larva (worker or drone) develops. A Varroa foundress enters the cell before operculation and lays successively a first egg giving a male, followed by several eggs (four or five, one every 30 h; Donzé & Guerin 1994), which develop into females. Development occurs in the operculated cell.…”

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The invasive Korea and Japan types ofVarroa destructor, ectoparasitic mites of the Western honeybee (Apis mellifera), are two partly isolated clones

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Varroa destructor , now a major pest of the Western honeybee, Apis mellifera , switched from its original host, the Eastern honeybee, A. cerana , ca . 50 years ago. So far, only two out of several known mitochondrial haplotypes of V. destructor have been found to be capable of reproducing on A. mellifera (Korea and Japan). These haplotypes are associated in almost complete cytonuclear disequilibrium to diagnostic alleles at 11 microsatellite loci. By contrast, microsatellite polymorphism within each type is virtually absent, because of a severe bottleneck at the time of host change. Accordingly, 12 mitochondrial sequences of 5185 nucleotides displayed 0.40% of nucleotide divergence between haplotypes and no intra haplotype variation. Hence, each type has a quasi–clonal structure. The nascent intratype variability is subsequent to the clone formation 50 years ago: in both types the variant alleles differ from the most common by one (in 10 cases), two (five cases) or three (one case) repeated motifs. In addition to individuals of the two ‘pure’ types, five F 1 hybrids and 19 recombinant individuals (Japan alleles introgressed into the Korea genetic background) were detected. The existence of F 1 and recombinant individuals in admixed populations requires that double infestations of honeybee cells occur in a high proportion but the persistence of pure types suggests a post–zygotic isolation between the two clones.

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“…A mature (or fertilized) female mite enters a cell containing a drone larva one to two days before it is capped by the worker bees. The female mite ¢rst produces a male o¡spring followed by an average of three to ¢ve female o¡spring (Donze & Guerin 1994;Boot et al 1997). If only a single mite enters a cell then the bee will hatch with the mother mite and her female o¡spring attached to its body (the male mite dies in the cell).…”

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“…If, for example, we increase at ¢xed n, we see that r increases with and that K is proportional to r. When is small enough, r < 0 which Martin (1998) estimated the probability of death per month for a mite attached to a bee for the 11 months when no drone brood is available as p d 0:1133. Donze & Guerin (1994) estimated that mites reproducing in a cell containing no other mites produce b 3 o¡spring on average. A typical small bee colony will produce n 400 drone cells once a year, while a large colony may produce around n 800 (Rath 1991).…”

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Relating individual behaviour to population dynamics

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Broomhead

2001

Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B

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How do the behavioural interactions between individuals in an ecological system produce the global population dynamics of that system? We present a stochastic individual-based model of the reproductive cycle of the mite Varroa jacobsoni, a parasite of honeybees. The model has the interesting property in that its population level behaviour is approximated extremely accurately by the exponential logistic equation or Ricker map. We demonstrated how this approximation is obtained mathematically and how the parameters of the exponential logistic equation can be written in terms of the parameters of the individual-based model. Our procedure demonstrates, in at least one case, how study of animal ecology at an individual level can be used to derive global models which predict population change over time.

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Behavioral attributes and parental care of Varroa mites parasitizing honeybee brood

Cited by 155 publications

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Honeybee health in Africa—a review

Honeybee health in Africa—a review

The invasive Korea and Japan types ofVarroa destructor, ectoparasitic mites of the Western honeybee (Apis mellifera), are two partly isolated clones

Relating individual behaviour to population dynamics

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