Pests and diseases of honey bees
Honey bees may be affected by a range of pests and diseases. The list below contains information about specific pests and diseases from a collection of sources, as well as regulatory information and forms.
Small hive beetle larvae
General information
- Non-infectious disorders of honey bees
- Bee parasites exotic to Australia (video)
- Sugar shaking bees to detect external parasites
- Honey bee endemic diseases and pest notification requirements
- Submitting samples to NSW DPI for diagnostic tests
- Samples for disease diagnosis (what to send)
- Honey bee endemic diseases and pest notification
100.5 kb - Fatty acids: an alternative control strategy for honeybee diseases (www.rirdc.gov.au)
- Exotic pests of honey bees
Foulbrood disease of honey bees
- American Foulbrood overview
- American foulbrood
- American foulbrood - tracing the source
- American foulbrood disease - inspection management
- American foulbrood positive diagnosis - what should you do?
- American foulbrood disease - sending beehive material for irradiation
- American foulbrood disease Paenibacillus larvae in New South Wales apiaries, Survey Results 2006
- AFB traceback form 27.2 kb
- Irradiation of beehive equipment - information from Steritech (www.steritech.com.au)
- Controlling American Foulbrood - Assessing effectiveness of shaking bees and antibiotic therapy strategies (www.rirdc.gov.au)
- European foulbrood and its control
Chalkbrood disease of honey bees
- Chalkbrood disease of bees (video)
- Chalkbrood (www.pir.sa.gov.au)
- Literature review of chalkbrood: a fungal disease of honeybees (www.rirdc.gov.au)
Small hive beetle in honey bees
- Small hive beetle
- Small hive beetle - an in-hive control device using diatomaceous earth 133.8 kb
- Small hive beetle: soil treatment permit (APVMA) 16.3 kb
- Small hive beetle management options
- Management of small hive beetle in Australia (www.rirdc.gov.au)
- Progress in developing strategies for the insecticidal control of small hive beetles (www.rirdc.gov.au)
- Study of the small hive beetle in the USA (www.rirdc.gov.au)
- Update on research to control small hive beetles: May 2005 (www.rirdc.gov.au)
- Small Hive Beetle Aethina tumida in New South Wales Apiaries 2002-6 Survey Results 2006 391.6 kb
Other pests and diseases of honey bees
- Braula fly
- Nosema disease
- Nosema disease: Literature review and survey of beekeepers (www.rirdc.gov.au)
- Oxytetracycline sensitivity of Paenibacillus larvae Subsp. Larvae isolates (www.rirdc.gov.au)
- Sacbrood (www.pir.sa.gov.au)
- Varroa: an exotic parastic mite of honey bees (www.dpi.vic.gov.au)
- Wax moth: a pest of honey bee combs and apiary products (www.dpi.vic.gov.au)
- Wax moth