America's premier pollinator of that crop, the alfalfa leafcutting bee (Megachile rotundata), is vulnerable to a deadly fungal disease called chalkbrood. But the bees might be best protected from ...

Bonoan and Starks analyzed how honeybee colonies of varying sizes protected themselves against a fungus that causes a bee disease called chalkbrood. To do this, the researchers infected the ...

Another pathogen, the fungus Ascosphaera apis, causes a honey bee disease known as chalkbrood. Because the fungus is heat sensitive, chalkbrood usually does not affect a strong honey bee hive ...

She certainly embraces the premise that bees can combat diseases. She’s bred so-called hygienic strains of honeybees that respond vigorously to low levels of chalkbrood. “They sacrifice the ...

Instead, Professor Seeley argues that honey bees are semi-domesticated ... to devastating diseases such as American foulbrood, chalkbrood, and tracheal and Varroa mites, and also to enhance ...

Chalkbrood is a fast-acting, spore-forming fungus which affects developing baby bees, so small that they can travel on a single bee hair Ms Gerdt's research found some bees are more innately ...

A disease that can devastate bee hives has taken hold in Alice Springs. Loading... Named chalkbrood, the airborne fungus can cut honey yields by more than 80 per cent. Chalkbrood covers bee larvae ...

The technology that created a new bee vaccine against disastrous natural ... used for European foulbrood and others can be made for chalkbrood, a type of fungus. “The hope is we can get to ...

Anything effective in killing 100% of mites could be dangerous to the bees. Beekeepers have to continue to stay vigilant. Other parasites include the fungi Nosema and chalkbrood, and the bacteria ...

which reduces the adult bee population. Jody Gerdts, a fourth generation beekeeper, is researching chalkbrood at La Trobe University. The PhD student said the disease was first reported in ...

chronic bee paralysis, varroosis, chalkbrood and sacbrood, it says. This has had an adverse affect on crop health and supplies of bee-generated products, according to the agency. For this study ...