Priscila Maciel Quatrin
Brazil
Review Article
Fungal Infections In Honey Bees
Author(s): Leonardo Quintana Soares Lopes, Priscila Maciel Quatrin, Márcia Ebling De Souza, Rodrigo De Almeida Vaucher and Roberto Christ Vianna SantosLeonardo Quintana Soares Lopes, Priscila Maciel Quatrin, Márcia Ebling De Souza, Rodrigo De Almeida Vaucher and Roberto Christ Vianna Santos
The apiculture is very important to the international agroindustry, due to the fact that bees are responsible for thehighest percentage of plant pollination of human food. However currently the bee keepers are facing troubles due the loss of Apis mellifera colonies causing losses to the honey production and mainly to the pollination of important agricultural cultures in the world and the impacts in food security. The decline of these pollinators can be explained by the many factors like, bad nutrition, loss of the queen and many pathogens and parasites. Stonebrood is a disease caused by the fungal Aspergillus through the ingest of spores and through the scarf-skin, therefore, can infect larvae and adult bees. Other pathology is the Chalkbrood, an infection disease caused by the fungal Ascosphaera apis, that occurs in bee larvaes (A. mellifera) is usually more prevalent in the spring, sin.. View More»
