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Question 1
Three eggs grouped on a sidewall
Laying workers |
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Question 2
Deformed wings on workers adjacent to the queen
Breakdown of brood pattern
Parasitic Mite Syndrome (Varroa damage) |
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Question 3
Twisted, molten and discoloured larvae
European Foul Brood |
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Question 4
Dinner plate brood looking like a digestive biscuit.
Holes in brood where the foundation support wire is
Healthy Brood |
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Question 5
Scale in cell
American Foul Brood |
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Question 6
White pupae cases
Greater Wax Moth infestation |
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Question 7
Pollen in base of cells
Eggs laid on pollen |
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Question 8
Dead imago (adult) bee emerging from its cell
Break down of brood
Parasitic mite syndrome (Varroa damage) |
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Question 9
Cluster of dead bees - head in to cells
No stores
Starvation |
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Question 10
Digestive biscuit
Healthy sealed brood |
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Question 11
Spines on back
On sand
Small hive beetle larvae |
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Question 12
Irregular surface of brood like a mountain range
Drone cappings
Drone laying queen (failed queen only laying unfertilised eggs) |
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Question 13
Faeces on hive
Sign of dysentery - suspect Nosema as a possible cause |
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Question 14
Grains of granulated stores in comb
Rough, sand paper like edge to cells
Robbed out comb |
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Question 15
Chinese slipper appearance of pre-pupae
Death of brood by virus infection (This is like but is not sacbrood) |
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Question 16
Molten, twisted, discoloured larvae
Perforated sealed brood
European Foul Brood - heavy infection |
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Question 17
Black shiny bee
Sign of virus infection (In this case Chronic Paralysis Virus) |
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Question 18
Coffee coloured pre-pupae
Tongue fixed to top of cell
American Foul Brood |
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Question 19
Break down of brood pattern
Dead emerging imago bees
Deformed wings on imago bee
Parasitic Mite Syndrome (Varroa Damage) |
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Question 20
White hard lumps of dead brood
Chalk Brood |
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Question 21
Mite on larvae
Varroa mite in bee brood |
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Question 22
White hard lumps of dead brood
Molten, twisted, discoloured larvae
Chalk Brood and European Foul Brood |
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Question 23
Mite on bee pupa
Legs on each side - just visible - and small size
Tropilaelaps |
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Question 24
Eggs in centre of cell base
Small healthy larvae in brood food
Apparently healthy eggs and young brood |
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Question 25
Lesser Wax Moth |
