caa a22 4500 469061316 CHVBK 20180323132858.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e19920801xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF01275519 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF01275519 Host preference of the honey bee tracheal mite ( Acarapis woodi (Rennie)) [Elektronische Daten] [Barbara Dawicke, Gard Otis, Cynthia Scott-Dupree, Medhat Nasr] Field and laboratory bioassays were used to test the preference of the honey bee tracheal mite,Acarapis woodi (Rennie), for drones versus workers. Groups of newly-emerged drones and workers were marked and introduced into either heavily infested colonies (field bioassays) or into the cages of infested bees obtained from the field colonies (laboratory bioassays). Seven days later all of the marked bees in each bioassay were removed. The numbers of mites of each life stage in each drone or worker target bee of each experiment were quantified. Mite prevalence values for the two castes were not found to differ significantly for either experiment. However, the caste of the target bee was shown to influence the migration of the adult female mites. Drones contained a greater number of migratory female mites and greater total numbers of all mite stages as compared to workers. These results indicate that migrating female mites preferentially infest drones and suggest that the role of drones in the dissemination and population dynamics of the tracheal mite needs to be examined further. Elsevier Science Publishers B.V, 1992 Dawicke Barbara Department of Environmental Biology, University of Guelph, N1G 2W1, Guelph, Ont., Canada aut Otis Gard Department of Environmental Biology, University of Guelph, N1G 2W1, Guelph, Ont., Canada aut Scott-Dupree Cynthia Department of Environmental Biology, University of Guelph, N1G 2W1, Guelph, Ont., Canada aut Nasr Medhat Department of Environmental Biology, University of Guelph, N1G 2W1, Guelph, Ont., Canada aut Experimental & Applied Acarology Kluwer Academic Publishers 15/2(1992-08-01), 83-98 0168-8162 15:2<83 1992 15 10493 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01275519 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01275519 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Dawicke Barbara Department of Environmental Biology, University of Guelph, N1G 2W1, Guelph, Ont., Canada aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Otis Gard Department of Environmental Biology, University of Guelph, N1G 2W1, Guelph, Ont., Canada aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Scott-Dupree Cynthia Department of Environmental Biology, University of Guelph, N1G 2W1, Guelph, Ont., Canada aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Nasr Medhat Department of Environmental Biology, University of Guelph, N1G 2W1, Guelph, Ont., Canada aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Experimental & Applied Acarology Kluwer Academic Publishers 15/2(1992-08-01), 83-98 0168-8162 15:2<83 1992 15 10493 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer