The book of the honey bee,

Mode of access: Internet.

Langstroth on the hive & honey bee,

Mode of access: Internet.

Bee-keeping for beginners. A practical and condensed treatise on the honey-bee. Giving the best modes of management in order to secure the most profit.

Mode of access: Internet.

The bee-keeper's manual, or, The honey-bee, its management and preservation : with a description of the best approved hives, and other appliances of the apiary /

Mode of access: Internet.

Langstroth on the hive & honey bee.

Second, third and fourth edition have title: A practical treatise on the hive and honey-bee.

Langstroth on the hive & honey-bee.

Second, third and fourth editions have title: A practical treatise on the hive and honey-bee.

The honey bee ; its natural history, physiology, and management.

Mode of access: Internet.

The Western honey bee.

Volumes 2-7 published in Covina, California.

A practical treatise on the hive and honey-bee,

Mode of access: Internet.

Electric heating of honey bee hives

Prepared in cooperation with Wisconsin Agricultural Experiment Station.

The thermology of wintering honey bee colonies

Bibliography: p. 32.

Pollination and the honey bee.

Bibliography: p. 17.

The honey bee: a manual of instruction in apiculture.

"Books and journals relating to apiculture": p. 118.

Transcriptome analysis of the synganglion from the honey bee mite, Varroa destructor and RNAi knockdown of neural peptide targets

Date of Acceptance: 20/12/2015 This work was funded by BBSRC-LINK grant # BB/J01009X/1 and Vita Europe Ltd. We are grateful to the Scottish Beekeepers Association, especially Mr Phil McAnespie in supporting this work at its inception. We acknowledge partial funding from a Genesis Faraday SPARK Award, part of a Scottish Government SEEKIT project for the early part of this work. We are grateful to Prof David Evans for his advice on Varroa destructor viruses.

Diversity in a honey bee pathogen: first report of a third master variant of the Deformed Wing Virus quasispecies

Treatment of emerging RNA viruses is hampered by the high mutation and replication rates that enable these viruses to operate as a quasispecies. Declining honey bee populations have been attributed to the ectoparasitic mite Varroa destructor and its affiliation with Deformed Wing Virus (DWV). In the current study we use next-generation sequencing to investigate the DWV quasispecies in an apiary known to suffer from overwintering colony losses. We show that the DWV species complex is made up of three master variants. Our results indicate that a new DWV Type C variant is distinct from the previously described types A and B, but together they form a distinct clade compared with other members of the Iflaviridae. The molecular clock estimation predicts that Type C diverged from the other variants ~319 years ago. The discovery of a new master variant of DWV has important implications for the positive identification of the true pathogen within global honey bee populations.