The First Discovery of the Tracheal mire Acarapis woodi in lonybee in Al-Jabal Al-Akhdar

• Hashmi A. Agleyo

  Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, Omar Al-Mukhtar University, Al-Bayda - Libya

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The samples of honypee workers (apis mellifera) collected from one apiary in Al-Gapal Al-Akhdar area were found to have a tracheal mite (Acarapis woodi). All stages of the mite were seen in the prothoracic tracheal tubes. And the crawling bees on the ground outside the hives was not due to Neosema disease, but as result of infected by the mite.

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