Scientific note

A scientific note on Varroa destructor found in East Africa; threat or opportunity?^*

Note scientifique sur Varroa destructor découvert en Afrique de l’Est : menace ou opportunité ?

Eine wissenschaftliche Notiz über das Auftreten von Varroa destructor in Ostafrika: Bedrohung oder Gelegenheit?

Maryann Fazier¹, Eliud Muli², Tracy Conklin¹, Daniel Schmehl¹, Baldwyn Torto², James Frazier¹, James Tumlinson¹, Jay D. Evans³ and Suresh Raina²

¹ Penn State, Department of Entomology, Center for Chemical Ecology, 501 ASI Building, University Park, PA, 16802, USA
² The International Center of Insect Physiology and Ecology (icipe), PO Box 30772-00100, Nairobi, Kenya
³ USDA/ARS Bee Research Laboratory, Beltsville, MD, USA

Corresponding author: M. Frazier, mfrazier@psu.edu, mxt15@psu.edu

Received: 19 June 2009
Revised: 28 September 2009
Accepted: 29 September 2009

This article has no abstract.