Towards integrated control of varroa: effect of variation in hygienic behaviour among honey bee colonies on mite population increase and deformed wing virus incidence
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Towards integrated control of varroa: effect of variation in hygienic behaviour among honey bee colonies on mite population increase and deformed wing virus incidence Hasan M Al Toufailia , Esmaeil Amiri, Luciano Scandian, Per Kryger, Francis L W Ratnieks Laboratory of Apiculture and Social Insects, School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Falmer, BN1 9QG, UK. Department of Agroecology, Århus University, 4200 Slagelse, Denmark.
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