Sources:
  • beeaware.org.au/archive-pest/tropilaelaps
  • beeinformed.org/2013/09/04/tropilaelaps-mites-part-2/
  • www.cabi.org/isc/datasheet/109538
  • Defra, 2005. Tropilaelaps: parasitic mites of honey bees. London, UK: Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, 14 pp
  • entomologytoday.org/2021/02/25/lab-test-rapidly-identifies-potential-mite-pest-honey-bees-tropilaelaps/
Picture Credits:
  1. Dennis Anderson, CSIRO
  2. CSIRO, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons


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