Agricultural and Forest Entomology (2019) 21, 136-138

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Franck Ouessou Idrissou, Lars Straub and Peter Neumann (2019)
Keeping a low profile: small hive beetle reproduction in African honeybee colonies
Agricultural and Forest Entomology 21 (1), 136-138
Abstract: 1. Small hive beetles (SHBs) Aethina tumida are parasites of honeybee colonies native to sub-Saharan Africa and have become an invasive species.
2. SHB mass reproduction can destroy entire host colonies, although it is very rare in populations of African honeybee subspecies. However, there are no data available on SHB cryptic low-level reproduction in African host colonies.
3. In the present study, we dissected entire African honeybee (Apis mellifera adansonii) colonies in Benin.
4. The data obtained show that nondestructive, low-level SHB reproduction can be very common in Africa and is sufficient to explain local infestation levels of host colonies with adult SHBs.
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Database assignments for author(s): Peter Neumann

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resistance/tolerance/defence of host
general biology - morphology - evolution

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Aethina tumida Benin
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