Topic Eleven - Bee Pests

Objectives

To be able to identify some of the pests of honeybees in the Solomon Islands
To learn how to prevent these pests from becoming a problem
To understand the importance of good record keeping and hive management
To understand the importance of the MAL quarantine on moving honey bees and used equipment
To begin to understand how to ask and answer questions through experiment and research

Key Words:

Pest – something which harms or disturbs a bee

Abscond – when all of the bees leave or run away from their hive

Parasite – a living thing that lives on or in another living thing and does harm to it.

Quarantine – a rule or law to prevent the movement of something from one place to another. The law is meant to keep a disease or pest from spreading to a place that doesn’t have that disease or pest.