A scientific note on the threat of small hive beetles (Aethina tumida Murray) to bumble bee (Bombus spp.) colonies in the United States

John T. Ambrose; Michael S. Stanghellini; D.I. Hopkins

doi:doi:10.1051/apido:2000136

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Volume 31 / No 3 (May-june 2000)

Apidologie, 31 3 (2000) 455-456

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Issue		Apidologie Volume 31, Number 3, May-june 2000


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DOI		https://doi.org/10.1051/apido:2000136

DOI: 10.1051/apido:2000136

Apidologie 31 (2000) 455-456

A scientific note on the threat of small hive beetles (Aethina tumida Murray) to bumble bee (Bombus spp.) colonies in the United States

John T. Ambrose^a - Michael S. Stanghellini^a - D.I. Hopkins^b

^aDepartment of Entomology, Box 7626, College of Agronomy and Life Sciences, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695-7626, USA
^bNorth Carolina Bee Inspection Unit, Plant Industry Division, North Carolina Department of Agriculture, P.O. Box 27647, Raleigh, NC 27611, USA

(Received 29 June 1999; revised 26 October 1999; accepted 29 October 1999)

Keywords: small hive beetle / Aethina tumida / bumble bee / Bombus spp. / parasite

Correspondence and reprints: John T. Ambrose
E-mail: john_ambrose@ncsu.edu

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