Apiculture (0+1)

Adult Diseases

Adult diseases:

	Nosema disease	Acarine disease
Causative organism	Nosema apis (protozoan)	Acarapis woodi (Endoparasitic mite)
Symptoms	Infected bees collect in front of hive, sluggish, crawlers on leaf blades, distended abdomen, dysentric (Fig. 17.4)	Bees gather in front of hive as crawler bees and unable to fly; disjointed wings having typical ‘k’ wing condition
Control	Feed fumigillin 200 mg in sugar syrup to each colony or 0.5-3.0 mg in 100ml sugar syrup. or Two feedings at weekly interval of Dependel-M @0.5g/litre/colony	Fumigate using folbex strips at weekly intervals or with formic acid (85%) @ 10ml/colony and replenish the quantity after every 24 h for 21 days