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Provedor de dados: | 82
País: | Brazil
Título: | Changes in the reproductive ability of the mite Varroa destructor (Anderson e Trueman) in africanized honey bees (Apis mellifera L.) (Hymenoptera: Apidae) colonies in southern Brazil
Autores: | Carneiro,Francisco E.; Torres,Rogelio R.; Strapazzon,Roger; Ramírez,Sabrina A.; Guerra Jr,José C.V.; Koling,Diego F.; Moretto,Geraldo.
Data: | 2007-12-01
Ano: | 2007
Palavras-chave: | Reproductive rate; Worker brood cell.
Resumo: | Varroa destructor has been in Brazil for more than 30 years, but no mortality of honeybee colonies due to this mite has been recorded. Africanized bee infestation rates attained by varroa have been low, without causing measurable damage to Brazilian apiculture. The low reproductive ability of this parasite in Africanized bee worker brood cells has been considered an important factor for maintaining the host-parasite equilibrium. Nevertheless, the possible substitution of the haplotype of the mite Varroa destructor that has occurred recently in Brazil could affected the reproductive ability of the population of this parasite in Brazil. The reproductive ability of worker of the mite females was evaluated in over one thousand 17-18day-old Africanized worker brood cells each of the two periods. The percentage of fertile mites increased from 56% in the 1980s to 86% in 2005-2006. The difference in the percentage of females that produced deutonymphs, female progeny that can reach the adult stage at bee emergence, was even greater. In 2005-2006, 72% of the females that invaded worker brood had left at the least one viable descendant, compared to 35% in 1986-1987.
Tipo: | Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Idioma: | Inglês
Identificador: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1519-566X2007000600018
Editor: | Sociedade Entomológica do Brasil
Relação: | 10.1590/S1519-566X2007000600018
Formato: | text/html
Fonte: | Neotropical Entomology  v.36 n.6 2007
Fonte: | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess