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The small hive beetle was first discovered in the United States in 1996 and has now spread to 27 U.S. states, including Hawaii. An infestation by small hive beetle was triggered in 2015 in British Columbia which led to a temporary quarantine. [11] In Mexico, the small hive beetle has become established in at least eight states.
Unlike a bumble bee colony or a paper wasp colony, the life of a honey bee colony is perennial. The three types of honey bees in a hive are: queens (egg-producers), workers (non-reproducing females), and drones (males whose main duty is to find and mate with a queen). Unlike the worker bees, drones do not sting.
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Destruction of honeycombs also results in leakage and wasting of honey. A healthy hive can manage wax moths but weak colonies, unoccupied hives and stored frames can be decimated. [104] Small hive beetle (Aethina tumida) is native to Africa but has now spread to most continents. It is a serious pest among honey bees unadapted to it.
Others are kleptoparasites of other invertebrates, such as the small hive beetle (Aethina tumida) that infests honey bee nests, [123] while many species are parasitic inquilines or commensal in the nests of ants. [124] A few groups of beetles are primary parasitoids of other insects, feeding off of, and eventually killing their hosts. [125]
The alarm pheromone has shown to be attractive to the small hive beetle. Therefore, there is a tradeoff between recruiting guards bees to defend the invaders and attract more beetles. The small hive beetle has a lower sensing threshold for the honeybee pheromone, which exacerbates the damage to honeybee hive. [39]
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Bee – a member of the order that includes ants and wasps; Bee anatomy (mouth) Bee bread – the main source of food for most honey bees and their larvae; Beekeeper – also called apiarist or apiculturist, a person who cares for bees