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Virus Status, Varroa Levels, and Survival of 20 Managed Honey Bee Colonies Monitored in Luxembourg Between the Summer of 2011 and the Spring of 2013 Cover

Virus Status, Varroa Levels, and Survival of 20 Managed Honey Bee Colonies Monitored in Luxembourg Between the Summer of 2011 and the Spring of 2013

Journal of Apicultural Science
Volume 59 (2015): Issue 1 (June 2015)
By: Antoine Clermont,  Matias Pasquali,  Michael Eickermann,  François Kraus,  Lucien Hoffmann and  Marco Beyer  
Open Access
|May 2015

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/jas-2015-0005 | Journal eISSN: 2299-4831 | Journal ISSN: 1643-4439
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Language: English
Page range: 59 - 73
Submitted on: Aug 4, 2014
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Accepted on: Feb 26, 2015
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Published on: May 29, 2015
Published by: Research Institute of Horticulture
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 2 issues per year
Keywords:
Apis mellifera,
honey bee colony mortality,
honey bee viruses,
Varroa destructor,
varroa-virus interactions.
Related subjects:
Life sciences,
Zoology,
Life sciences, other

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