Asian Scooter Asian Wasp arrived in Portugal and does not let the bees leave the hives After fungi, pesticides, climate change, habitat destruction, bees, now in a world decline, now have to deal with another threat: the Asian wasps. In Portugal, the region between Minho and Lima is most affected by these wasps. What would…
Varrose Definition Varroosis is a parasitic disease that attacks all individuals of the hive: larvae, nymphs and adults, both workers and drones. It is a very serious disease caused by the development and multiplication of the ectoparasite mite Varroa destructor, discovered in the bee Apis cerana, by Oudemans, Indonesia (1904, Java Island). Being a long…
